Faith French Poems

"Whether or not one approves, Sound Reasoning doesn't give a 
fu*k ."
-- Rational Ethics 101,
not for the fu*k-up vulgar

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In...

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Girls Gone Wild
Careful, you may just have a child 
Drugs and alcohol plague the alleyway 
Stay away as there is a price to pay
Is the...

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Sound of a song softly sung rose in the air and through windows
Barred to let air and light in and little else.
A lament sung in...

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gathering her long dress in both hands,
she ran across her father’s green fields,
to the shore lines and its golden sands,
to his warm embrace, kisses she...

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When I was young,                                           ...

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She walked the labyrinth with her head bowed down 
and thought of Christ with His thorny encrusted crown
Each rock was interlinked, attached to a circular...

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Warm my heart touch the sky
Sail beneath these stars by and by
Winds carry my spirit see
Shaped clouded memory 

Sail unplanted sextant
Steer from journey’s door
Upon a...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel


Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and...

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it's the simplest thing we can do 
that we don't find it the hardest
life has become a survival yet God never planned it that way
we...

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Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch

So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty...

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Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.

What...

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“Notre Dame”

A morning in April the world changed
And something which no one ever expected
Happened to a building in Paris
Hell reached up and grabbed a piece...

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Stadacona
An ode to Quebec City

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On the green bank of a mighty stream - 
A lofty aerie - a fair city beam
With stately air a queen,...

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Ma’am
By
Jude Kyrie

I remember the first time I met her
It was at the orphanage.
I was going through rehabilitation
after running away for what
turned out to be last...

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