Best Adeline Poems

FOREVER ADELINE 

Acknowledgement:  
A big thank you Sam Scott from our Poetry Soup Community,
for your splendid narrative contribution.

Synopsis: 
A story of unrequited love that began in childhood. 
Despite the passage of time, his love remained hauntingly 
painful even after she fell in love with...

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Note:  In 1976, Richard Clayderman (real name Philippe Pagès) received a telephone call from a well-known French record producer, who was looking for a pianist to record a gentle piano ballad. Paul had composed this ballad as a tribute to his newborn second daughter...

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Painting: Adeline Ravoux   by Vincent Van Gogh

who can comprehend my emptiness (she asks)      i can (says the artist)


written 17 July 2023
Van Gogh Monoku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Di11y Da11y...

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An angel in mortal guise,
Devoted to family.
Everything a child could want,
Life, love, and hope came from you.
In my heart, you're in heaven,
Nothing brings me more joy, than
Envisioning you up there.


Acrostic


03/12/2015 


My mother was named Adeline, which means
"Noble." An apt name for a gentle lady.
She passed...

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On the side of the road to the Small Mission
Of Nuestra Senora del Los Milagros
A white rose stands under the shadow to peace all divisions
Protected by a majestic Eucalyptus with branches we cannot dose

Adeline was a girl whose name reflected the rivers’ streams
White soul and...

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A poem by the wonderful Maria Williams (copy link above)...

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Many said it would happen when you least expect it
Young, virile, twenty-eight, a baby in the corporate world. Not ready yet.
Until he walked into a Parisian restaurant and saw Adeline.
Her brown hair was a feature, sure, but he could not see her eyes.

Noting her straight...

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I am on a writing wonder roll today
I credit the sun with a hip hip hooray!
Trixie is on spring break far far away
We are glad for she deserves an hour and a day.

Her cousin Adeline came to help me a bit.
But I argued with her...

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