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Premium Member The Dragon of Haute-Savoie Is Flying
The dragon of Haute-Savoie is flying
while shimmering into the night
with silvery scales reflecting the moon -
a most welcome marvelous sight.

Higher he’s soaring as if his...

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Categories: haute, mythology,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Lacroix, the Dragon of Haute-Savoie
I've heard a dragon's tale since I was a wee boy
of a gentle creature who lived near a great sea.
Tis said it guards the sleepy...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haute, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Want Peace
I want a piece of chocolate cake
Oh and a delicious piece of cherry pie
I want a piece of that place called Fort Knox
With all those...

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Categories: haute, fantasy, fun, funny, holiday,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member speechless -
 - breath blushes blue between us ...

you ask the question
THAT question
so, you're requesting rationality, lucidity
when you stand before me dressed in pure starlight
ONLY starlight,...

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Categories: haute, metaphor, night, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rant
This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise...

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Categories: haute, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse



On Chefs and Cosmeticians
They ply themselves to sculpting,
to fingernails and foie-gras,
those crafty cutters, carving, trimming.

Creations to delight the senses,
a dab of blush or sauce bearnaise,
a final glance, she's...

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Categories: haute, business,
Form: Rhyme
Good things and bad things
There are things, Gaëlle, that are pretty good
Say hello to her mom every day,
Say hello to the nice weather vane,
Listen to the trains in the...

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Categories: haute, appreciation, education, nice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall Runway
Fall season is a favored time of year
when leaves irradiate their aurum cheer.

Custard colors cloak paths with brilliantine
while misty breezes tease the woods to sheen.

A...

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Categories: haute, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Couplet
Gone Girl
Gone Girl.....

That razor blade
Is her paint brush/
That canvas... Is her wrist
Her rush
Of blood/ To her head/
Means/
She's been painting deep into her flesh!.....

Her pain is still...

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Categories: haute, suicide, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Go West, Young Man (But Not So Fast)!
The old saw "Go West, Young Man" is attributed to Horace Greeley,
But it was coined by a writer from a Terre Haute paper, really!
Horace was...

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Categories: haute, funny
Form: Rhyme
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of...

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Categories: haute, books, change, culture, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
French Invasion: Whine and Cheese
Since the bloody Battle of Hastings
When 'Arold got killed by French Bill
We've seen an endless invasion of French
And I've just about had my fill

Don't we...

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Categories: haute, french, language,
Form: Rhyme
The Pen!
"Are you Quill?," She asked abeam.
"Yes, of course! - mostly - when the Muselle` 
visits oft'n'r upon, as my wont!
"Well, here!, this will surely help...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haute, happiness, imagination, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were An Elephant
Don't cover me with a mantle of glitter
For a circus parade that flaunts
A pretentious kaleidoscopic dream,
Where I am tricked to enchant an audience
Paying hard-earned bills...

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Categories: haute, animal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Twelve Days of Christmas
His young bride took the Twelve Days of Christmas to extremes it seems!
His true love kept piling on strange things well beyond his fairest dreams!
On...

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Categories: haute, christmas, humorous, day, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs