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Best Gustave Flaubert Poems


Prophecy of Sand
Men, they say
Dominators
Slayers
Conquerors

We have been subjugated by their culture and rules
The norms and the religions of masculine fools
The laws and the clowns
The world one day will evolve

We who have the curves and seductive smiles
Are we not filled inside with the same DNA? so they say…
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Categories: gustave flaubert, dedication, divorce, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the poetic rules
virtuous and unsoiled

aa bb cc dd
pristine are us
sanctimonious sugared pus

we live for 
accolades are us
Dorothy reads 

Poets are us.
Smiles...

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Categories: gustave flaubert, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can
"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some, it ushered in a new age of realism in literature.


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Categories: gustave flaubert, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Frustrations of a Poetic Writer
Writing poetry draws one within
allowing the inward self to demonstrate
all that's been down there deep and dark
making your light shine before its too late

Irritation is a descriptive word
one that we all seek to emulate
it tasks our mind to our extreme
pointing higher worthy to contemplate

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Categories: gustave flaubert, poets, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Docteur Bovary: Blessed Are the Meek
Madame Bovary is the première novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. It tells the melancholy story of the entitled marriage into a lackluster middle-class lifestyle that ends in tragedy.


Docteur Bovary: Blessed Are The Meek.


Yet was oft-mocked, a humble sort,
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Categories: gustave flaubert, character, muse,
Form: Tritina

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry