Best Petites Poems

Petites and Faeries, it is said, live just beyond that hill
       Their Moondust dazzles breathlessly, on nights so calm...

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"petites éruptions" 

life pops 
oven red 
poppy petals

opium
eyes smoking
jade reflections

deep 
as the deep
blue ocean 

milky skin soft 
and sweet as 
juicy peaches 

crimson lips 
crushing...

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I.
Under the ice
   Life bleeds;
as it cuts its way
   through to the warmth above...
       ...

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Les petites pépites de temps mènent à de GRANDS RÉSULTATS
 

je désirais accomplir une seule chose par jour
je croyais avoir perdu la tête
à la fin...

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You’ll never be an Olympic champion, Cecile,
After your accident on the ice,
Just walk, only,
There are so many beautiful things to do,
While walking, only, doubly,
Walking makes...

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The trick is to buy a smaller size,
The brain tells the head, this is wise,
Don't chow down on sweets,
To look like those petites,
One sure way...

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Petites manies
Grandes superstitutions -
Dompter le destin.
         Abdelwaheb Dhaou....

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douleur référée

donc le cœur apporte avec elle la tragédie
simultanée et pour toujours
un autre jour passe, une autre personne va par,
un autre ami a reçu, une...

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Why the translation? Because French is a pretty language.
mon petit chou is a term of endearment “my little cabbage.”

Leaning in—
Listening
To small things,
Big issues.
Work consumes
Your time.

Occasionally,
A...

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Le soleil a perdu sa lumière en plusieurs années
Dans l'autre face de la grande Meditteranee;
Et, avant que je retrouve cette sliver,
Qui ma aidé a rentré...

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À la mesure
 


petites phrases ici et là
écrites au milieu de la nuit
évincées froissées rejetées
insignifiantes

fades reflets
disqualifiés
jamais à la mesure des émotions
de mon ardeur
de mon amour...

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Je vois partout de beaux bouquets
de clochettes blanches à l’air fragile ;
Ces petites fleurs aux têtes courbées
feuilles vert-foncé et tiges graciles.

Sur une pelouse forestière
un tapis...

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I would stay for hours,
Waiting for a nice bee to land,
On the small purple flowers of a fuchsia, or heather,
I would wait for hours,
As if...

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Priére de Remerciements

        Merci à lá vie pour être
        pleine de...

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Only birds tell the truth,
They hear our little fears
And lay them in their nests,
They know when we cry
And tell all their friends, in heaven,

Only birds...

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