Fontaine Poems - Poems about Fontaine

...It was a sizzling summer of electric blues and vibrant hues in a garden full of flowers inked in plushy spanking reds a wall of buttress wood splashed with vines of green a purple morning glor......Read the rest...

...Ce sont de grosse perles tombées à l'envi du paradis, Grain à grain, plus luisantes que tout superbe satin. Leur fraîcheur et délicatesse proviennent du séraphin, Qui dit: jamais ses qualités ne d......Read the rest...

...At times we should not be afraid to roundly call a spade a spade. I shrink not from a reference to a fearful pestilence. From Leo the king to a lowly vole, the fear of death held all in thrall. ......Read the rest...

...“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine Trials amid tribulation failures, gradual adaptations life a series of grafts some taking......Read the rest...

...I'm living in the moment & you're looking for forever, I'm being the best worse me, I am way too clever, I can lap you in a drag race, I'm way ahead of my time a real conundrum in space Spit game ......Read the rest...

...POETIC JUSTICE There was an old man from Fontaine Who walked with aid of a cane One night he was mugged By a wannabe thug In the graveyard, the thug was lain 11 April 2018 For the cont......Read the rest...

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......Read the rest...

...This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles is the best - John ......Read the rest...

...Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary [*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires] ......Read the rest...

...Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth (As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André FONTAINE of Le Monde; an illustrious......Read the rest...

...Tick and Leech Note: This little story (perhaps there are more to follow) has its origins in two spelling mistakes. The first one is 'Leech' for my dear friend M......Read the rest...

...Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-conti......Read the rest...

...last night I slept in a closet with my coat made of tangerine desires and visions of distant permafrost last night I remembered white noise in her voice buried hopeless in a bureau of disdain ......Read the rest...

...A fly and ant, upon a sunny bank, Discuss'd the question of their rank. 'O Jupiter!' the former said, 'Can love of self so turn the head, That one so mean and crawling, And of so low a calling, ......Read the rest...

...Monsieur L'Vampyre - FONTAINE DE JEUNESS MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - fountain of youth Into the night, committed to my way, in sheer delight, and freed from light of day, I bring no ray of hope for you......Read the rest...