After Jean De La Fontaine's Fable the Animals Sick From the Plague
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.
Even the amorous turtledove
found no appetite for love.
At last King Leo called together
birds big and small of every feather,
dogs, wolves, hares,
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Categories:
fontaine, allegory, animal, literature,
Form: Narrative
Ricky Fontaine
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 is the best improv straight from my mind out, all I need is a
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Categories:
fontaine, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form: Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - Xxvi
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-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes, plagues, pestilence, famines, accidents, police brutality, paedophilia, fratricide, patricide, racism, anti-semitism, corruption, assassinations, bankruptcy, elections, stock-exchange slumps and ruptures, parades
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Categories:
fontaine, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Monsieur L'Vampyre - Fontaine De Jeunesse
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
if tears are what you're coming to,
and if you're hoping love will ever stay.
I bring the passion! Love that's
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Categories:
fontaine, angst, black african american,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Question To La Fontaine
A Question to La Fontaine
Was the ant free from debt to the cicada?
If she could live to work without a song,
Then her life was hardly worth living;
And let her gather to eat,
And eat to die.
If, on the other head,
She only garnered better
And the more provisions made
Because he sang to the world,
and her,
On his grass-blade,
Then
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Categories:
fontaine, life,
Form: Free verse