Best Tristesse Poems

Je dois pleurer
Plus tard, je devrai aussi mourir

Je dois faire marcher mon stylo
Plus tard, je planterai une fleur

Quand il pleut, je suis toujours triste
Quand le...

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from the collapse i gained
which i dont know why and how;
my shrinking entity-
whose lifetime had passed so undearingly-
had lost its prowess

and slowly.. 
almost momentarily like...

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Tristesse

Do you remember hazy days in Paris?
Mornings painted with rain
delicious sunshine dancing on wet streets
like warm tears
washed away now with your reflection
in the quiet certainty
of...

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I write the sadness of the Brazilian forests, 
About modern centuries and glass cities,
Tattooed Indians who are murdered too,
For a handle of gold or green...

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J'ai appris que jamais, les anges ne mentent

Car tout ce qui est faux, emprisonne nos âmes

Loin d'un ciel bien trop haut, dans un destin infame...

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Love Sonnet 
This afternoon at the local grocer I had bought a bottle of beer
 and a tin of tuna fish and I meet the...

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my soul plunged into sadness
and this town becomes my cry
Belgrade in Paris
when I feel its beautiful avenue
singing the hymn to nostalgia
oh land of my youthfulness
my...

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Hier, je suis tombé dans la noirceur de la nuit
Dans la mer de tristesse
Aujourd'hui je me lève de la mer
Seul dans le...

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Translation of " Bury Me in a Free Land " by Frances E. W. Harper
(Homage to Frances Ellen Watkins HARPER, the First Black Lady of...

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Etranges sentiments qui remplissent mon coeur
Confuses sensations, le mensonge est roi
D'obscures vibrations pénètrent en moi
Comme si tout me ment, amplifiant ma douleur

Ce que je ressens...

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e temps passe rapidement
Et vient le temps des decisions 
Faut-il quitter ou le Liban
Ou rester a la maison ?
Faut-il travailler
ou continuer mes etudes a l'universite?
je...

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mes larmes coulent pour le mystère de la mort
la tristesse qui te hantait au creux du coeur
avec ce goût toujours amer de la vie sur...

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Tristesse fell in love with a Duke
The Duke thought their love was a fluke
But tonight at ten
All over again
They both fall in love with a...

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Charles Bukowski
I read a fine essay written by a friend of mine, Bukowski
I thought he was a great poet and writer, whether the high
table of...

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Passing misgivings
 There are moments in once elderliness when
the flowers of the mind, the silver of remembrance 
is but a cracked black  & white...

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