Best Jour Poems

"Had I not broadened my menu, I never could have developed Good Taste" 
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An eighteen year old sailor on the Riviera in the Spring
Mademoiselle Your smile can make my young heart sing
Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo who could ask for more
I volunteered for the USO, so on duty days I could be ashore
I held her hand and said bon...

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Facebook's beginning to look like Poetry Soup 
There's Becca! Richard! Tim's in the group!
Julia's here! Andrea! Liz and Paul
Demetrios! Eileen! WOW that's not all!

So come on in and join us 
Cause you never know who'll you see!
We're making Soup out of Facebook
And it's looking good...

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Quand le jour se levera, la lumiere eclaira
la bonte divine nous reviendra et l'amour s'eclatera dans nous
voila les chemins menant de partout
les passagers et les amis de la mort sont la
les gardiens de la volonte les guident.

Quand la terreur reignera, le jour deviendra tout noir
la...

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To a Kind and True person
Mystic Rose

I love it in this kitchen
The aroma is just fine
The taste of these confections
complimented
                     by fine wine
And although there's...

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God bless the counter tenor
King of Kings, Lord of Lords
Member of my divine Parliament
Halos abounding and sounding
Of Celestial bliss and perfectude.
\Pitching pulchritudinous pitches,
Pushing me to transcendence.
No God can touch this
Nor man bring down.
God bless the counter tenor...

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written just a couple weeks before the lease at prior abode would expire, and no affordable habitat....just by happenstance and a thankful invisible hand of destiny.
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Pome du jour

Rudderless and leaderless we will traverse

The seas and the trails 

Of meter, rhyme schemes and tropes

(If we please)

And land on Moot Point - somewhere north of San Francisco.

The medium is, after all, the message (per Marshall McLuhan)

And a poem must need not 'mean'...

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No never no calls
From daughter or son
No never it seems
Nobody no way. 
Daughter is plastic
And son is too old
No never, no calls,
Never, no way.
Industrial pimping
To arouse a eyebrow,
But to take a mere moment
No, never, no way....

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J'ai oublié le jour


Quand tu as volé mon coeur
je suis devenu très froid
la vie je ne crois pas encore
la musique m'a échappé

Je ne ris plus
je n'ai plus de larmes
ni de charme
morte comme la rose noire

J'ai oublié le jour
j'ai oublie mon coeur
je ne connais plus l'amour
rien...

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a double parrilada
beef empanados
chimchurri chips
morcilla pudding
dulce de leche ice cream
provlone
cheese!...

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"Hey, Waiter!  There's a shark doing the backstroke in my soup du jour!"

"I wouldn't worry too much about it sir!  He won't eat much of it for sure!"

Entry for Anthony Slausen's "Shark In The Soup" Contest...

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Our first drawn breath    A symbolic pact
Stating Mother Nature's works as natural acts

Without sayers of fortune
Or circled hands professed of shine
Only an arachnid's sky bound brood
Did manifest her vision in his mind

In morning bright
Were shooting strings and streaks of gleams
Trailing little things
Wishing...

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ACROSTICS DU JOUR

ODIS

Once upon a very sad time,
Disappointment crossed my hapless mind.
Instead of thinking that would be fine,
Someone gave me this dog to walk behind.

SUZANNE

Supple and sweet within my reach
Under starry skies or sandy beach
Zigzagging memories across my heart
Another moment and we will part.
Now I’m...

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Pigeons Du Jour

Coming soon to your city
Birds that poop soap
Not yet in production
But researchers hope
To modify pigeons
With a new bio-brick
In synthetic bacteria
That somehow will stick
To fats in their system
And then lower PH
Turning poop into soap
I know you can’t wait
With statues eroding
From years of decay
These soap...

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