Beauty French Poems

This is my English translation of "L'Invitation au voyage" ("Invitation to the Voyage") by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It's a poem he wrote for...

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Fair Lady Without Peer
by Charles d’Orleans
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Fair Lady, without peer, my plea,
Is that your grace will pardon me,
Since I implore, on...

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Paris was the perfect place
To start these summer games,
From the opening flotilla
To the lighting of the flames.

Instead of an arena,
Athletes floated down the Seine,
Waving flags...

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Moulin Rouge

The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom, in a field espied;
That overwhelms creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension
Shifting to the wind’s...

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A former lyric to celebrate some bode
A lyric to praise someone who is a goad
A lyric in praise of the West Wind - an abode
Of...

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Lake of beauty there in France
Invitation for romance
Of course you know what I'll now say
I want to go with you someday

We don't know French but...

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There is the rose I suppose 
This is the kind I can find
With its prose as it poses
Aah ma cherie cherie
We keep these healthy roses
Ma...

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Such purrfect beauty in female form
I bet her skin is soft and warm
I'd place her hands inside of mine
And guide them on the neck so...

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Amazing places 
The sphinx of Egypt 
Fort Lauderdale's spirit 

People's faces 
Lovers gazes
Swear it by merit 

Taj Mahal flavor 
Coconut kissings 
French Riviera 
Gorgeous banks...

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As I wandered about the lush lawn
In the gazing ball I glimpsed
A breath-taking young woman with a touch of innocence
In her soulful, violet eyes.

I was...

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Fashion’s symbolic sensuality draws eyes, stir passions and maybe even resentments!  =]

Of course, maybe you’re above worldly conceits, above fashion. YOU, go through life...

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it’s 2 am in paris 
and we have locked arms 
as we walk-run
down the rue des rosiers.
the soles of our shoes
smack against 
the eight hundred
year...

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Le Jardin De Ma Mere.


      A frayed straw hat protecting silvery grey,
      my mother got...

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PUNICA GRANATUM

Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate
No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade"
No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and...

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i become a stone,
   still a leader,
but translation
transforms me,
   as i learn
      “le crayon est rouge.”

“Je...

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