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Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat translation by Michael R Burch

...Le Bateau ivre (“The Drunken Boat”), an Excerpt
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

The impassive river carried me downstream
as howling warriors slashed the bargemen's throats,
...

Categories: bateau, beautiful, boat, body, children,
Form: Free verse

You ought to know

...You ought to know
I need your intent
That  I'm in love now

Put  yourself in my place beau
Show your are content
You ought to know

Do not grin, allow
There's no time like Lent 
That I'm in...

Categories: bateau, appreciation,
Form: Villanelle

to live in Plougastel

...I don’t know if owning a beautiful home,
Facing the sea, makes happy,
There are people who do not manage their thoughts,
And that makes them dangerous,

There are people who are convinced
That ...

Categories: bateau, art, beautiful, french,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

La Maison Rose

...La Maison Rose
She is a landmark restaurant
bringing fame to Bateau Lavoir
I dine on dainty croissants and sip my orange tea
We are both elegant and rich,
And now I am feeling French....

Categories: bateau, travel,
Form: Free verse

Blueberry Boat

...BLUEBERRY BOAT

I’m going to sea in a blueberry boat
With cellophane sails on cinnamon mast
It could be cold so I’ll take a coat
And In case of a leak some Elastoplast

We shall sail on seas o...

Categories: bateau, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

News From the Salt and Wind

...The horizon is sleek :
       No sails coming
       No boat slips
>     And I remember
That you embarked, joyful
for this distant country
Where you would be happy
- (  according to what is sa...

Categories: bateau, absence, boat, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Free verse

Heavenly Romance

...Luminesence 
besprinkles fantasies
on liquid love
surrounding us.
Riding the ebb and flow,
we rock
we lull,
we ripple
in the reverberations 
of our aphrodisia.
Salty breezes
teases our exc...

Categories: bateau, relationship, romance, sea, sensual,
Form: Free verse

The Blue Hour Takes Root

...The blue hour takes root ...

There is the dark wing of the steamer,
Which takes the open sea, and carries away its regrets,
Tiny passengers, waving handkerchiefs
And the seagulls passing and pa...

Categories: bateau, music, nostalgia, wind,
Form: Free verse

The Shining Path of the Walkway

...My hands are embedded in your skin,
And your body is rambling,
To the sea of a thousand waves,
>       I am a boat ...
-

I have the heart that fails,
Engraving on the ocean,    my wake
When ...

Categories: bateau, allusion, beauty, body, girlfriend,
Form: Quatrain

Sleeping Porch

...Sleeping Porch

Light bulbs strung like stars made their way from the camp house down to the dock.  We had two old boats tied up down there at the ready.  One was made of metal an old Johnboat and th...

Categories: bateau, emotions,
Form: Narrative

Scarlet Portmanteau

...Duke Luke by his bateau
Arrived at his chateau,
Had he travelled through large eau!

His mysterious rendez-vous 
with Henry Thoreau
Yielded him a scarlet portmanteau.

Entering his bureau,
h...

Categories: bateau, adventure, allegory, art, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Vignette-Le Bateau

...Was by an artist of worldwide renown
Sadly the museum hung it upside down
Forty-seven days nothing seemed amiss
So what would Henri made of this-
Travesty to the great Matisse

http://www.henri...

Categories: bateau, art, people,
Form: Narrative