Flower French Poems

Wait for the shutters to be closed,
we will enter an enclosure
in complete silence,
like a deep cave
which I don't know the way.

My eyes will ignore all...

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Hair as long as the Mississippi River,
Eyes as dark as a bayou on a moonless night, 
kiss as sweet as a honeysuckle flower, 
and as...

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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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It was a love that spoke for itself,
as natural as a poem
which grows in a flower
at the end of its rod.
without ever having confessed it,
I...

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provence dry summers
aromatic lavender ~
waltz of the heart



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on May 28, 2020...

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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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Aurore 

velvet desires
stare
captivated

I linger
thoughts cultivated
in a wine glass

can I drink her?...

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Ce réveil 
est lent
Ces instants qui se suivent sans décompte
Comme un levé de soleil distant
Il s'approche 
Baigné dans une rose chaude
cette fleur ne pique pas...

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Pixies in the fields
not fairies from the skies,
Turn sunflowers facing East
with well-trained fireflies!...

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L, thou art awesolent
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in a Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth...

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