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Cyrano de Bergerac 1619-1655

Cyrano de Bergerac
entered a race
not fleet of foot
but hoping to place
tho' quick off the mark
the competition so tough
kept him on his toes
when the going got rough
yet setting the pace
he won by a nose...
the schnozz on his face

With apologies to Edmond Rostand (1868 – 1918)

Categories: cyrano, fun, humorous, race, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Reverse Cyrano

“Reverse Cyrano” 

Reverse Cyrano 
new wave poetry 
straddles the ruins

milked
with two sugars
dark Tea dreams

red leaves laquer 
the vain roadmaps 
that stain the ingrained

with pommegranate poetry
the bejewelled heart 
sweet and tart 

and thick 
skinned
sliced and skewered

each granate 
a sparkling 
hidden gem

within the ruby 
words written 
riding astride those worlds 

like wolves 
in those comforting 
dicomforting whispering

Categories: cyrano, muse,
Form: Free verse

Cyrano

Oh c*nt, you dick

It is so nice to talk like Cyrano and be polite

Towards the goals of love. To fight

No more. To write quite lovesick

On the topic in a way most delicate, refined

And win a heart not by title nor by cash

Instead by art, to be quite dignified about the flesh

A master of the body

Categories: cyrano, art, love, muse,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Cyrano Situation


Pinocchio politicians
got long nose ambitions
Pirate patch parrot thoughts
in the bosom
keel dereliction decisions
Gender gypsy tramps bought,
paid horizontal submission
Whore whispers being said
Global security is premature burial 
on a bald eagle spread bed ... 
squirting liquid lies: moo white noise emission
Face paste looks like a Cyrano rinse condition
Gator tears shaking 
from a dirty tongue megaphone
Broken spit vows 
gutter

Categories: cyrano, allegory, parody, truth, wisdom,
Form: Burlesque

Cyrano

Oh Cyrano, dear Cyrano 
Monsieur, de Bergerac
Your nose was big, yes really big
Immense, “la tabernac”

You stuck it in, a love affair
And wrote, Roxanne some prose
She fell for it, to the extent
That then, she Christian chose

All those years, you pined for her
And wrote Christian, some more
But in the end, it wasn’t him
But the letters, she’d adore

So

Categories: cyrano, heartbreak, humor, lost love,
Form: Narrative

After Reading Cyrano

Let me speak of great love:
"Love!" no consonant can procure--
No vowel can lyrically form
Into lips and eyes so fair,
Dare I use the word divine
When proclaiming mine?

Yes! My love is all of these--
And adjectives numerous more
Than leaves,
And flakes it takes to white
The vast countryside,
And stars one counts when ribbons
Of stars unfold and
The dazzle of the heart

Categories: cyrano, allegory, allusion, heart, love,
Form: Free verse

Cyrano

"So Cyrano", I asked, so many years ago.
"Do you miss your love on these darkest nights?"
We were passing time during a battle's lull.
I, had long known his most secret thoughts,
although in the dark I could not see his face
I could feel the pain that I knew was there.
Pain twin to mine, but longer in time

Categories: cyrano, allegory, introspection, love, time,
Form: Sonnet