Best Fontaine Poems

Unquotable 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,...

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I'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...

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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...

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Monsieur L'Vampyre - FONTAINE DE JEUNESS
     MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - fountain of youth
Into the night, committed to my way,
in sheer delight, and...

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This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was...

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It was a sizzling summer of electric blues and vibrant hues 
in  a garden full of flowers inked in plushy spanking reds 
a wall...

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Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...

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POETIC JUSTICE

There was an old man from Fontaine
Who walked with aid of a cane
One night he was mugged
By a wannabe thug
In the graveyard, the thug...

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A fly and ant, upon a sunny bank,
Discuss'd the question of their rank.
'O Jupiter!' the former said,
'Can love of self so turn the head,
That one...

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Tick and Leech

Note: This little story (perhaps there are more to follow) has its origins in two spelling mistakes. The first one is 'Leech' for...

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Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth

(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André...

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Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry 

Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves...

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last night I slept in a closet
with my coat made of tangerine desires
and visions of distant permafrost

last night I remembered
white noise in her voice
buried hopeless...

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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
  
Trials amid tribulation
failures, gradual adaptations
life...

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Un bruit si plaisant

venez de la petite fontaine,

Je regarde dehors au-dessus du côté du balcon, 

cinq histoires du sable mou ci-dessous,

au-dessus de la courbe douce...

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