Best Claude Poems

As ivory awakened the moon,...

                           exquisite music lulled me to sleep 





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Sponsor: Rick Parise
(My mother's favorite classical piece)...

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Claude Monet
all those lilies that got in his way
traversing those pads
it's now understood was just one of his fads....

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There once was a lion tamer named Claude

   For twenty years the cheering hordes he'd awed

      He had been bitten and mauled

         But the mad crowds he enthralled

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Mr. Juncker's Continental System

Cohorts of Luxembourg, arise!
Keep the Russians from the Rhiine.
Hosts of Luxembourg, en garde,
Confine the British to the brine.
"We'll do without America,"
says Merkel with aplomb.
Warily one has to ask,
"Whose finger's on the Bomb?"
Français ou Allemand?
Que parlons-nous, messieurs?
Until this issue's settled
It's Anglais, faut de...

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'Tis said that William Claude Dukenfield was fond of his rum.

   A healthy nip morning, noon and night was his rule of thumb!

      He was better known as W. C. Fields who was always on the skids,

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He was born November 4th
in Paris France
and had an artistic eye the moment he was born
his fascination
with light upon the waters
reflected itself
in the painting of the Red Boats which is
priceless today

He was a dreamer and 
an impressionist schemer
studying composition upon the lap of the masters
he...

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There was an old cowboy named Claude LaFeet,
      the scourge of the western plain.
A Frenchman by birth and a man of some girth,
      he limped and carried a cane.
He had been to the 'Pen,' had...

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I am devastated, dumbfounded, dismayed,
These people are so stupid, or crazy,
They threw some hot soup
On a painting by Claude Monet,
These people are ridiculous, wicked,
Who will listen to them? Not me,
How can you believe what they say?
They destroy immortal works,
These people are so stupid, or crazy,
No...

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Author's note: This is not intentionally a historical piece, dear readers, but I thought I should probably add a bit of background info primarily for the benefit of my more international friends and colleagues on this site who may not be too familiar with the...

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Letter me with lines that I may distil
The sovereign sweetness of your flaming will
Teach me to sing of dusty flowers pure
And maiden's savaged innocence no more
To scorn, for you in all emotions soar
Though self-exiled from our tropical shore
Great poet, who brought Apollo's lyre here
O could...

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I could've gone to Holland. I could've gone to Spain.
I could've gone to Denmark. I could've gone insane,
But instead I came here, where the river mirrors life
In a fractured, dream-like way on this brilliant summer day
By the Bridge at Argenteuil.

A couple in a rowboat, a...

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I’ve never been to Sicily, and yet
it’s always felt a part of me.  Who knows?
Another life, another alphabet?
Alongside Archimedes, jotting prose
in Agrigentum I, with each vignette,

imbibing wine, as bitter as regret,
harangued the hellene farmers, stoning crows.
That Greek me – did I tend (as now)...

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I enjoyed Claude Kirchner's Super Circus TV Show as a child,
but the end of his show was something that I would always dread.
He always ended every show with the following vocal style,
"It's now time for all good boys and girls to go to bed,"
and that's...

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Drac, Wolf, Frank, and Claude

Bela to Lon, doubtless psychosis,
Karloff insert he needs hypnosis,
those three murmured on,
awe night till scared dawn,
Rain unseen flights for diagnosis.

2020 October 09...

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French artist Claude Monet
painted scenes from life occurring day to day.
Peace he found from his large garden pond
where paintings of 250 water lilies he spawned....

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