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Bastille Poems - Poems about Bastille


Orphans In The Bastille
All the pure thinkers are slave to the Poet Their theories self-serving whose quotients divide With ‘facts’ that convict them to prisons constructed From every transcendence — their numbers can’t hide (Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2025) ...

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Categories: bastille, poets, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Back To Her
After the Sunday service, searching back to her For a date. He will soon be walking back to her. Bottle rockets popping over the Sacre Coeur. She suddenly kissed him; he then leaning back to her. Leave ending, the soldier takes the Gare de l’Est train. Just outside, from his window, waving back to her. She travels east by train. He...

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Categories: bastille, children, conflict, french, retirement,
Form: Ghazal



Premium Member Storming the Bastille 2021
A tale of morality, behold the truth, I’m so important Doing the right thing, this liar brings out discordance Whatever it takes, expedience, just get the job done Top guns instruction, when elections need to be won March up to Capitol, don’t want...

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Categories: bastille, abuse, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Rhyme
Camille Desmoulins Fall of the Bastille
Camille Desmoulins was a poet at the time of the French Revolution, his enthusiastic speeches were practically the trigger for the inspiring Revolution of other revolutions ... he acted together to his inseparable friend DANTON in l789: Every revolution has its day, every change has its time, the eld leaves, it has to follow ... the new always arrives and installs ... the...

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Categories: bastille, allusion, history, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Why Do We Celebrate Bastille Day
Fete Nationale finally came about on July 14th 1789 When the commoners stormed the Bastile so fine. Their crops had failed that summer, and it went to their head. They were spending ninety-percent of their salary on bread The Tyranny of King Louis the Fourteenth was not sliding by His wife was lavishly spending, and they owned the gun power...

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Categories: bastille, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bastille Day For Real
Bastille Day for Real Jean Val Jean French "Mensch", Rescued "Freres" From a Societal Trench, Confounding the Monarchy With a "Monkey Wrench". Marie Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Cake", Only Inspired the Revolution to Make, Show the "Roi" a Farce, Royalty a "Genuine" Fake. "Marsellaise" Patriotically Sung, Bastille Stormed, Prisoners Freed & Democracy Formed, Citizen's United , The Specious Throne "Wormed". Lafayette's the Gratitude to America...

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Categories: bastille, anniversary, freedom, jewish, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bastille 2016
Bastille Many years ago They stormed the Bastille Two hundred and one lost their lives The tennis court oath however survived Jacques had his heart with the masses Necker could not be dismissed so easily The storming of the Bastille was to be The birth of a nation for all men free And free men they were Running naked through the streets What they lacked in...

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Categories: bastille, anniversary, death, dedication, evil,
Form: Free verse
Bastille
I got a plan You all are part of my caravan My cousin went to Paris, France Here was my chance I told her to bring back a Paris Cap So what do you think of that? But thinking now, I should have asked for the foundation of the Eiffel Tower Now that would have taken a lot of power My cousin couldn’t...

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Categories: bastille, adventure, appreciation, art, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bastille Day Bicentennial July 1989
'Neath the Sacre Coeur, Firecrackers bursting nearby, Nelly first kissed me. 20141003...

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Categories: bastille, anniversary, celebration, firework, paris,
Form: Senryu

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