Fear French Poems

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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When I was young,                                           ...

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Headed for the tower  

Watch the legs supply the power  

Using a simple two-wheel device  

Spirited competitive ride healthy and nice ...

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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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Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped...

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Je ne comprends pas pourquoi j'entends des voix
Pourquoi crie-t-il à moi
Pourquoi veut-il faire du mal à ma famille?
Pourquoi je pleure
Pourquoi parlent-ils en retour?
Pourquoi dois-je purger
Pourquoi...

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Life is short,
life is spry
like a crisp, little french fry
that gets stolen 
if you fail to watch over it.

It's written in the name 
of two...

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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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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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tacto significativo---french verse
toucher significatif


Ah! un tel sens
   toucher significatif
comme la pluie au printemps plongeant sur mon corps
comme le vent frais souffle me touche...

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Violins drowned
Voices strangled
Nightmares invade sanity
Under covers of fear
I must hide and sleep
Even inside darkness
I see us both
Weep...

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Brigitte my love
Our Country suffers of many debts
The people are restless
Whatever shall we do love?

Ah Macron, we must think past the cookies
The solutions are complex,...

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I do not love dreams, I love reality.

I do not believe tomorrow, today I believe.

My life has been, just the relationship with the crop,

I have...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” - 10

STANZA  IX

Snubbed by Churchill, de Gaulle’s June 18th appeal
Saves not crushed Rouen, Paris...

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RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 4)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza:...

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