Best Tiens Poems

Tiens mes pensées
close let your dreams lie
impassioned albeit pensive
succumb to the sultry beats
echoing across empty hearts
and within the day breeze
tomber en moi

Faraway but close enough to see
you no longer holding me
I know 
yes
I see...

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L'Empéreur s'amuse

(after Victor Hugo)

For the banished ones, of stubborn resistance,
France is far off.  The tomb is near.
But don’t worry, Prince.  Enjoy your existence.
In the Bois de Boulogne, chase deer,
chase women in the theatre.  Rome’s burning incense 
for you.  The Tsar calls...

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Tu le fera, n’est-ce pas, Papa ? – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Won’t you, Dad ? » by T. Wignesan

Si toutes les jolies mélodies
de ce monde eussent été chantées
et toutes les chefs d’œuvres des maîtres
fussent être exhibées dans des meilleurs galléries
et toutes les statues...

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GOLF- one swing away  from a problem hiding

TIEN IS A 10 SYLLABLE  MONOSTICH FORM

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Comparable and complementary

a tien (10 syllable sentence verse) to celebrate Tim Smith' blog topic today

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Le courlis poussa des cris – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « The Curlew Cried » by T. Wignesan

(Note d’Oodgeroo : Le courlis fut le frère d’aborigènes. Il venait trois nuits de suite pour pousser des cris près d’un campement afin d’annoncer la mort d’un entre...

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Nakuja
Kwa wito, NINAENDELEA – I COME I PRAISE--

I come
To the calling
I stand at this gathering
I stand
At my calling
With lifted hands—praising
I praise to the All Father
My Father-God
I come to the calling
To the calling of my Lord
I raise my arms and hands
I sing unto my King
I praise...

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in bookshelves of yesterday's memories

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VERSET 1.

And I do, I do love you, and I do love you;
Quand je regarde dans tes yeux, je vois au fond de ton âme, ton âme;
Est-ce que cela vous surprend que je vous aime toujours autant?

REFRAIN
Et je t'aime
Plus….
I do and I do love you

VERSE...

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three quatrains together with a couplet

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oh to pause awhile draped in loves caress


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euphony carries verse beyond the norm

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my love and I become one ,together

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a gymnopedie Saties interval

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Le Courlis poussa des cris -Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's The Curlew Cried by T Wignesan


 (Note d’Oodgeroo : Le courlis fut le frère d’aborigènes. Il venait trois nuits de suite pour pousser des cris près d’un campement afin d’annoncer la mort d’un entre eux. Ils...

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