Best Fontaine Poems
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes, plagues, pestilence, famines, accidents, police brutality, paedophilia, fratricide, patricide, racism,...
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Categories:
fontaine, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ricky FontaineI'm living in the moment & you're looking for forever, I'm being the best worse me, I am way too clever, I can lap you in a drag race, I'm way ahead of my time a real conundrum in space
Spit game is the best improv...
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Categories:
fontaine, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form:
Narrative
A Question To La Fontaine
A Question to La Fontaine
Was the ant free from debt to the cicada?
If she could live to work without a song,
Then her life was hardly worth living;
And let her gather to eat,
And eat to die.
If, on the other head,
She only garnered better
And the more provisions...
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Categories:
fontaine, life,
Form:
Free verse
Monsieur L'Vampyre - Fontaine De JeunesseMonsieur L'Vampyre - FONTAINE DE JEUNESS
MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - fountain of youth
Into the night, committed to my way,
in sheer delight, and freed from light of day,
I bring no ray of hope for you
if tears are what you're coming to,
and if you're...
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Categories:
fontaine, angst, black african american,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
After Jean De La Fontaine's Fable the Animals Sick From the PlagueAt times we should not be afraid
to roundly call a spade a spade.
I shrink not from a reference
to a fearful pestilence.
From Leo the king to a lowly vole,
the fear of death held all in thrall.
Even the amorous turtledove
found no appetite for love.
At last King Leo...
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Categories:
fontaine, allegory, animal, literature,
Form:
Narrative