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Best Riviera Poems

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Premium Member Dinner On the Redneck Riviera
Cuter than a June bug was Blossom
Bubba's hound had a nose for possum
   Bush moved and they watched it shake
   Not...

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Categories: riviera, funny
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Virgin's Dream of Sensuality
Being sensual isn’t necessarily about sex.
I recall a night of such immense innocent delight
that all my senses -heightened- far exceeded
my teenage expectations of romance.

My sense...

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Categories: riviera, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The British Weather
It's the only land that you can
get all seasons in one day
you name it UK displays it
all the colors from blue to grey
 
It certainly...

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Categories: riviera, england, seasons, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 1
Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted 
Bustling promenade,
Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture 
Of restaurants and exciting little bars,
Enhance upon regal elegance of the...

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Categories: riviera, sea, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Only To Depart
I brushed aside
My faraway glimpses,
The many consequences
Of trifle revelries I wasted
Grasping the snippets of night time
And all  abandoned pining.
Bouquets of fondled whispers dangled
Among damp...

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© Leon Datu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riviera, absence, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Free Verse Fever
He walked into the place of my employment.
I was the only one at work in that small convenience store.
His aura was that of an angel
with...

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Categories: riviera, day, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Naming Life
Ebullient charm cascades
in the rolling valley of time,
changes color with reflection of chromatic sky
from dreaming dawn to dulcet dusk.
On sensuous azure canvas the artist mind
paints...

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Categories: riviera, beauty, life,
Form: Free verse
The One Percent
The One Percent

I have outgrown longevity
and poverty has taken the best of me
and now I am an indigent hack
I stopped  dying my long ...

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Categories: riviera, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bon Jour
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...

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Categories: riviera, love, nostalgia, places, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Time Unperturbed
Time Unperturbed




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Categories: riviera, celebration, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Fall of Duke William: Ballad For the Acadians
The French sail
To the Riviera
From the metis 
To Canada

They became Acadians
And settled in Port Royale
Their lives were famine and conquest
But that didn’t hurt morale
The British...

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Categories: riviera, adventure, culture, discrimination, history,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Returning To the Astral Nest
1.	The story started in sunshine on the sea shore
2.	in reminiscent ambience like the French Riviera
3.	where the colors of sunset were painting horizon.
4.	When twilight merged with...

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Categories: riviera, analogy, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sunstroke
Eyelids  heavy with memories 
Cover lights and shadows of a hospital in ruins. 
A baby with grown-up fingers 
Reads the past in Braille 
Barely...

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Categories: riviera, imagination, lifelove,
Form: Free verse
Tulum
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Tulum
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: October/2013


Tulum, 
in the morning sun,
 is like a diamond 
shining brighter 
than
any diamond 
that 
your eye's
will ever see -

Only a few 
can say 
that 
they have seen 
this mythical
wonder...

the Mayan city, 
that...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riviera,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Most Beautiful
A classic beauty was his luxury Buick Riviera,
the name of which would never have stayed with me but for the fact
it became a carriage that...

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Categories: riviera, beautiful,
Form: Sijo

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