Best Francais Poems

I'm having trouble with
The voices in my head
While I speak simple english
They speak fluent french
So I never really know
Just what is being said
Which makes it...

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Three French quatrains, Translation of Etiemble’s Trois quatrains français  by T. Wignesan

Fly …fly !

For Sylvie (Etiemble) on the occasion
of commencing primary school

All cats are...

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Setting: a cafe, chamonix, in hand a tea.
Across- a woman, seated, not seeing me.

Embarrassed I am,
that I, a questionable I, 
like a lamb: 97 and...

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The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road

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The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road

I was born Carl Robert Halling at...

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I was born at the tail end of the Goldhawk Road
Which runs through Shepherds Bush 
Like an artery, 
And in the mid 1960s,
Served as one...

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A Vegetable Story

Broccoli, Spinach, yummy fresh Garden Peas,
Cabbages, Winter Greens, Cauliflower Trees.
Runner Beans and broad, Mange Tout so Francais,
Curly Kale, Crunchy Sprouts on a cold...

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I woke up this morning
Sporting a Beret 
Speaking in a French accent
Parlez-vous francais?

With a scarf around my neck
A pencil thin moustache
Afraid I might have woke...

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La Tour Des Baleines

In Misses Halliday’s community,
A lighthouse steadily illuminates
That coastal location.  Containerships
Can safely navigate.  Supertankers
Can avoid incidents.  Superliners
Can protect passengers unfailingly.
This...

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I once had a friend in College,
who was a young man named Fred.
He had a funny crazy habit,
of making certain utterances in French,
to pretty girls...

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French lilacs outside my window curse en francais
for the air is too cold and the sky is too grey
and they are unable to wear their...

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En 
francais,
pancake day-
mardi gras they
say...

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French Silk Pie!

Heaven must be missing Angels
Oceans must be missing mermaids
Miracles must have grown feet
Prayers answered, you are their manifestation 
Such sophistication
Cake frosting smooth rich...

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I think the French and Greek have the most beautiful expression for the word "wife" in their languages: Ma Femme (French) and Gynaika Mou (Greek),...

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Since the power of essence, drawing upon the bud.
Cigarette powder, a drawing of ash from fire.
We live to do, to see, to hear.
Spinning in circles,...

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Everybody knows him as Alessandro,
the handsome gigolo of Via Veneto,
and his lucky charms he sells to many a gorgeous lady,
he approaches them and says,
" Mademoiselle,...

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