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Cannes Poems - Poems about Cannes

Wave of Fantasy

...Let’s sail away to Acapella,
A celebrity haunt owned by Penn and Teller.
I shall act as your prince, you’ll be Cinderella
When we’re sat on a beach in Acapella.

It’s not as sexy as Cannes or as...
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Categories: cannes, celebrity, fantasy, guitar, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBig Dog

...
I'm the Big Dog—VY Canis Majoris
in the Big Dog constellation
that's why you still adore us

Howling loudly—I'm a star!
Among the biggest known to man
Distinctly visible from afar
so don't l...
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Categories: cannes, fun, humorous, star, universe,
Form: Personification



Harlem To Cannes

...Those living in Harlem
want to move to Midtown

The people in Midtown,
to the Upper West Side

The Upper West Side, 
to the Long Island Shore

The Long Island Shore,
to Aspen or Vail

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Categories: cannes, desire,
Form: Free verse

Oh Civilization

...it’s wonderful,
amazing the world dwellers are
civilized they’re as well as I’m really!

with them-

my language is English
I’m civilized!
my language is Arabic, Mandarin, French, Bengali etc...
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Categories: cannes, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFilm Festival - Country's Future

...Cannes, France
Can France?...
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Categories: cannes, film, french, future, poems,
Form: Footle



Premium MemberOscar-Ku 28 -Marty

...butcher meets teacher
poignant character study...
first Cannes Palme d'Or






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...
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Categories: cannes, anxiety, character, conflict, film,
Form: Haiku

Harlem To Paris

...Those living in Harlem
  want to live in Midtown

The people in Midtown
  the Upper West Side

The Upper West Side on
  the Long Island Shore

The Long Island Shore
  in Aspen or Vail

As...
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Categories: cannes, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHaiku Passage 9

...Evening cicadas
Cacophony climax;
Night time music

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By this playground
Noisy frolic parades;
Little feet gather

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Haiku moment:
Brief promontory,
Dragonfly buzz...
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Categories: cannes, allegory,
Form: Haiku

Hollywood Starlet

...Your ship will sink and your star will fall
So you'd better be prepared
I hope you're well seated when you hit that wall
And the spotlight dims its glare
You step from your car like a debutante
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Categories: cannes, vanity,
Form: I do not know?

Platinum Icons

...Platinum Icons

Their tale to tell is much the same
with looks that helped their claim to fame
Blonde and curvy, they got the jobs
In films and shows they flaunted their gobs

Deep, husky voic...
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Categories: cannes, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Silver Spoon

...Dear Mother’s new flamboyant beau
Suggested I should take a job,
Instead I hopped aboard our Lear
And winged my way to St. Tropez
To mope, quiescent, on hot sand,
Ambivalent for Mother, dear,
U...
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Categories: cannes, beach, mother son,
Form: Blank verse

Pablo, According To Me, Part 1b

...Pablo...according to me (Part 1b, continuation/finish from Part 1a)

Re Pablo Picasso printmaking exhibition at Bellagio Hotel's Fine Art Gallery.

(7) Photo - PP's living room (by David Douglas ...
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Categories: cannes, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMenton

...A lovely place is Menton
situated on the Med
near the French/Italian border
where the sun expands it's said

It's filled with many colours
from flowers with beautiful scents
really showing such beaut...
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Categories: cannes, holiday, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBon 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 for more
I volunteered for the USO, so on duty da...
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Categories: cannes, love, nostalgia, places, time,
Form: Couplet

Good Stuff

...thank you mr. obama &
mr. sarkozy 
for revealing to us your humanity
in denouncing the insanity of 
mr. netanyahu,
even if it cost you both major points in the
great
political
gang 
bang.

it was qui...
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Categories: cannes, life,
Form: Free verse

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