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Premium Member Underground Art Montmartre
soak up the side streets of Montmartre, 
Paris, 	Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy
class less 	art combusts	then drips 

- street beggars & tourists cant

writer Rubbish pastes...

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Categories: montmartre, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Love Montmartre-Mystic
Soaked up the atmosphere of Montmartre
Found café enjoyed French citron tart
Double shot of coffee went down so well
Then I heard the Sacré-Coeur bell.

With hand on...

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Categories: montmartre, feelings, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Montmartre Memories
I confess that these are false memories
as I’ve never been to the Paris’ and it’s
arrondissements, and these days, I avoid
air travel what with climate change.
Yet...

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Categories: montmartre, conflict, french, memory, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Toad of Montmartre
The croaking toad
The spitting toad
Is ill
Time and wind pass
Like poor cowards.

Nothing is forever
Life will remain beautiful
Put a little salt
‘Cause we must fill up the shovel
Where...

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Categories: montmartre, animal, environment, fantasy, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Immortal Journey
Oh! What a journey
We have walked through fields of gold
And stood beneath starry nights

Moon dust in our eyes
specks still  glowing on our tongues
And in...

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Categories: montmartre, art,
Form: Personification



Premium Member The Power Flower
Flower power

“If you’re going to
San Francisco be sure to
wear a flower 
in your hair”
long and shaggy
shagged longing wild

And to Berlin or
Paris for that 
matter to...

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Categories: montmartre, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member San Francisco Wishes

If I only had one wish be granted me tonight,
To be forty-five, again,would be a blessed delight.

To be able to walk in high heeled shoes,
Not...

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Categories: montmartre, happiness, imagery, memory, romance,
Form: Couplet
C'Est La Vie
Wish I was a poet, and got well paid
for poems writ whilst wearing suede
and drinking lots ‘n' lots of claret, 
in a well-appointed Paris garret

My...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: montmartre, humorous, paris,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Behind the Architects Crystal Lens
Musee d’Orsay grasps the hands of time.
The clock crowns; its gears move around.
Gallery-goers lookout and grin 
from Paris-Orleans to Montmartre;
the clock crowns; its gears move...

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Categories: montmartre, art, travel,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Caprice
When limbs of Montmartre tint the glow
chemise de nuit falls to the ground,
belle de jour, come moan a pale sound
through alleys winding lamp light’s flow.
Her...

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Categories: montmartre, passion, places,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ekphrasis Making An Impression
THE BOOKWORM van gogh
l'rlesienne,book readng dame
a hobby,name linked with fame
LA FOLIE  manet
from front+near,a double take
ELLEN degas
dans un cafe thinking of tonights play
CAMILLE monet
his model...

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Categories: montmartre, art
Form: Ekphrasis
I Love Paris
Paris is  this:
A comedian
on the street an accordion
that empties it"s
songs on the Seine ...
Summer is in the square,
From La Concorde or
anywhere, and the boulevards
crowded...

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Categories: montmartre, allusion, art, city, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Winter's Day In Paris
Crazy winter's day in Paris when the snow falls
Kids all around throw to each other snowballs 
The Eiffel Tower has a backdrop of snow 
Residents...

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Categories: montmartre, anxiety, blue, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Pabulum
Abstracted eyes study plasmid menus.
A rattle of gleams
stirs coffee in a Montmartre café.
A Cairo belly dancer glistens
in her cocoon of sequined waves,
wine glasses tinkle, while...

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Categories: montmartre, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Mobile In Alabama
Those were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.

Since they...

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Categories: montmartre, beauty, dream, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet

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