Rebellion at the fingertips...
Is every Mao-suited Chinese man a wannabe beatnik?
Even the anti-hero unknowingly conforms to a borrowed script
succoured by allure.
Exhaled ethereal silver circles of thought,
while plotting...
Ritual rhythms at the Café de Flore,
stillness and motion in retro contrast.
A cowboy in cool contemplation
draws deep,
leaving footprints in the dust.
Baskets of straw holding beautiful flowers,
My lone heart in flore street,oh how I miss the flower boys,
Floating in flower fields with the butterflies riding the winds,
How I miss the boys,the flower boys of flore street,
Rose boys,lily boys,daisy boys,sunflower boys,
Beautiful they were,each unique in his own,
Winter came- I long to see the boys,the flower boys,
What happened to them,what happened to the boys,
The cheerful and colorful boys,
I remember in the far distance of my jogged up memory,
How they play on flore street.... Or how they used to play,
Growing up is addicting,
But fear consumes me without the boys,
Growing up without the boys,
..........Flower boys of flore street,
Rose boys,lily boys,daisy boys, sunflower boys,
Baskets of straw holding beautiful flowers,
How I miss the flower boys of flore street.
F-ine
L-ight
O-bliterates
R-ainy
E-vening
J-ust
E-rasing
A-nother
N-ight
M-ist
E-ven
D-ark
I-s
N-egated
A-new
Topic: Birthday of Flore Jean D. Medina (October 01)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A bon vivant lyfestyle
of the Bohemians de Paris,
has always saddened and deluded me...
by seeing it in someone's happy smile.
Mademoiselles and jeunne hommes,
exchanging artistic and poetical ideas
at the Cafe' de Flore, or at the Les Deux Magots...
with coffee aroma on their breaths.
Living in legendary and vibrant Hollywood
is an honor to be seen with the admired and respected wealthy;
and whoever struggles, can't keep up with any of them...
whose only desire is the glitter of money.
And steadily dreaming of a bon vivant lifestyle with an aloft
imagination, I let this want often disrupt my peaceful sleep...
not being able to accumulate, quickly enough,
fortunes and stand on that pedestal of greed.
So snap out of fantasy and don't peruse into La Dolce Vita
of Hollywood! Stay away from those extravagant fashion shows!
And at the Cannes, Capri or Venice Film Festival, avoid contact with movie stars,
stare at them from far...they are as contagious as influenza.
Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
True
to life
creamics-
dream maidens in
stone
Flore by Louis Challon & Emile Muller-
Art Nouveau dream maiden bust.
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