Best French Poems
Below are the all-time best French poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of french poems written by PoetrySoup members
FrenchIn the orchestra of languages
Nobody would dispute
That French, with honeyed cadence,
Would be likened to the flute.
I pass a French school every day
And hear the conversation...
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Categories:
french,
Form:
Rhyme
French Food as Art
The French have a reputation for
combining food with art – with more
emphasis on art than food, and causing many
to leave the dining table still...
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Categories:
art, food, french,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
french, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Shape
Door to NowhereDoor to Nowhere
Royalty have Chateau’s
With moats and drawbridges
Artists have colors
Paints and brushes and dreams
The poor have soup
And Marie's gateau’s
The lonely have open doors
To nowhere
I let...
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Categories:
allegory, french, humanity, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Leaves of the DeadLeaves of the Dead
Les feuilles mortes
They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my...
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Categories:
french, imagery, music, paris,
Form:
Lyric
BeautifulLusting the passions of a secret desire
Unwinding the mystery of my needs
Funerals are for the future
Internment I ask be deferred
Timeless is my youth
Useless is my...
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Categories:
autumn, beauty, death, french,
Form:
Acrostic
The Whore and the Sea part 1The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...
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Categories:
allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
The Whore and the Sea part 2You know sailor man,
You woke the spirit in me
I thought you were drunken and carefree
I could not hope or dream
The whore of the seas must...
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Categories:
allegory, angel, destiny, french,
Form:
Free verse
L'OvertureL'Overture
Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice
Ray Charles...
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Categories:
french, black african american, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Darkest of ConfessionsDarkest of Confessions
Voices in my head
Dancing abreast with the abstract
Shattered glasses and shattered dreams
History repeats many a lovers’ defeat
I demand a duel
With my heart
I welcome...
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Categories:
angst, appreciation, french, funeral,
Form:
Free verse
Paris in TurmoilI
held the
hand of a
stranger lying
face down with flying
bullets spraying the room,
killing, striking so many
innocents frozen in terror.
As I fled I realized she...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, french, murder,
Form:
Etheree
Skies From A Little Girl's EyesShe wades in until the water reaches her waist,
looks out and continues into the endless sea.
Her imagined long gown floats behind her.
Her little girl shoulder...
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Categories:
child, french, nature, princess,
Form:
Free verse
Lake VasoSkies falling, upon the ragged heart pasquil
Tranquility ripples across the lake in plethora
She is there, in my heart, a sweet delusion
As I cross the waters...
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Categories:
art, french, imagination, lost
Form:
Lanterne
Ghosts of summerWindmills
standing still
no wind
empty windowsill
minds
at sleep
a death
of another time
heartless
flowers that never grow
no wine
tears fall silent
fragments appear
shooting stars at night
dispersed onto the dark
windmills of my mind
...
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Categories:
allusion, angel, french, heart,
Form:
Quatrain
Blanc comme la neigeWhite like the snow
Ice stiffened limbs
Reaching out
No saviors about
Snow flakes in the wind
I reached and reached and reached
Towards deaths cold hands
Never to see her again
I...
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Categories:
angst, art, french, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty or Joie de Vivre Part 1
Paris then was a place
Where new ideas were
Brewing in the intellectual
And art communities
And new ones were
Emerging everyday
Some brilliant some not
Time will make it...
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Categories:
allusion, french, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
Notes"A Paris"
Jazz and ballet
White dresses
Red wine
Violin strings
Moulin dances, stories so grim
Le Bois de Vincennes
Castles under clouds of sin
Cafes with causal chatter
When after all
What does life...
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Categories:
art, dance, dark, french,
Form:
Quatrain
Death Of Marie Antoinette THE DEATH OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
(MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE)
Songwriters set their words about her style
and artists make pursuit to paint her smile
but all the light that's...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, french, paris,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Rainbow of funI opened my love to a beautiful day,
In rain, in hail, and cold,
And my heart ran off, to your open arms,
To grasp, to...
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Categories:
beautiful, freedom, french, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Waterloo Clerihew 23-SkidooWaterloo Clerihew 23-Skidoo
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 Corsica is where he got his start
One of the greatest commanders in history
His manner of death a 200-year-old mystery
Napoleon played it...
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Categories:
conflict, french, history, humorous,
Form:
Clerihew
An American in ParisWhen Toby removed to Paree
The people all called him Tobee.
“That’s not me,” he’d plead,
Then finally concede
To be, not to...
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Categories:
french, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Stolen Heart
I stood on the cobbled street
at midnight - gentle wafts of the Cassis vineyards
dancing on air, mixing, not unpleasantly,
with the bite of late December,
(reminding me...
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Categories:
adventure, christmas, french, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Pray For ParisI’m all shocked and confused
after watching the news
hostages, bombings and shoot-
ings, this is really too much
I can’t do much
so my mission
is to pray for all...
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Categories:
french, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Trumps WallTrumps Wall
He boasts
Walls he shall build
With his generals
More weapons for the King of the Hill
Sowing hate and creating
Fascist dreams
He divides and demeans all those
Who share...
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Categories:
art, children, french, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Pere LachaisePere Lachaise
Five into the Twentieth
Death is not worth the doing
Life is not worth the living
So I am in-between two worlds
Rotting above the ground
Whilst the corpses...
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Categories:
beauty, death, french, funeral,
Form:
Verse