Bastille Day Poems - Poems about Bastille Day

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... This is about San Francisco,1967 Oh, yes that city had its own song! It was a siren's call that sang; "Here, Panagiota, is where you do belong!" And my dearest poets, the sirens cal......Read the rest...

...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 Insp......Read the rest...

...Marianne (Bearer of Tricolour) Marianne; the Goddess of Liberty and bearer of Tricolour, Triumphant French Republic revolutionary figure, Evokes solidarity with breasts exposed and baref......Read the rest...

...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XIII If you pull a lean long face Each day in fear of the next Saturday Time to tone down High C voice in Elysée Palace Yellow Jackets are closing in on the Champs ......Read the rest...

...IF ever I had a country : XXIII-XXIV XXIII IF ever I had a country And if ever I were but the Home Secretary I wouldn't sit on my baked beans doing my level-......Read the rest...

...The incomprehensible The sun was just going behind the westerly ridge it had been a hot day, and the sun appeared angry for a cosmic reason, and we don`t even know our Mind and what influences ......Read the rest...

...We embrace the craze for the garbage Sacrificing your sometimes fragrant calls Shifting from paper to paper Like skyscraper the same garbage In every news every daily Spillage of helpless hum......Read the rest...

...84 people dead, No regret said, More critical, holding on, Somebody’s partner, someone’s son. France stands for liberty, Which was wrought on Bastille Day, When the people overturned, The......Read the rest...

...'Neath the Sacre Coeur, Firecrackers bursting nearby, Nelly first kissed me. 20141003......Read the rest...

...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake : Part Thirty-Three Just then out of the arboured portals of the hotel emerged the wily woman Clad head through bent back to toes in black silk bulging gown She thread......Read the rest...

...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Three Note: I do hope it’s clear to readers by now that – strictly speaking – in these ruba’iyat, I deviate from the original Persian medieval model, introduc......Read the rest...

...Levees fragmenting with The rumbling winds And howling rains Of weathered emotions, Erode and erase Structures and lives. My ancestors survived Bastille Day So that I could withstand A mons......Read the rest...