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...

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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...

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Painting: Adeline Ravoux   by Vincent Van Gogh

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


written...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Wild Bill Bailey loved his liquor
far too much for his own good-
Spent his days in smokey taverns
draining far more than he should.

Adeline had long suspected
as...

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September waltzes in high on its tiptoes
graceful under the midnight moon skyline
honored to present its most fragrant rose

September waltzes in high on its tiptoes
with an...

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THE BARBERSHOP QUARTET

The barbershop quartet, mustache brushes in hand.
A Capella joviality, with torquing wrists, snapping fingers.
Bristles foaming, silky white and smooth, voices grand.

Dapper in their...

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(Dedication: This is for 
my sister-in-law, Adeline 
on your birthday. Cheers!)
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Learn to style fest in hair affair,
Exploit the waves and curls laid bare.
Charm follows zest...

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Why?
Why not!
Their point of view

Each Friday they drank 
vengeance
every bottle drowned
another ache

Knights
shedding the end of a week
elegant shine
lost in devil may care

Needs
numbed in a 3-day...

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I was a successful, fancy dollmaker, but that had not always been the case,
Such as a case for blossoming romance, when spring is budding everyplace.

For...

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"Fartastially yours," he says as he shoots them out like a gun 
I pinch my nose in disgust and then I speed out like a...

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