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Life French Poems

These Life French poems are examples of French poems about Life. These are the best examples of French Life poems written by international poets.


Premium Member how France treated me
The most romantic city in the world the passenger next to me said
Her girth had oozed into my seat too, for she was super corpulent
I...

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Categories: french,



Premium Member Paris, Seven Months From Now
then you rushed into the leafy courtyard late
like you’d just been thrown in by some hand
but we hadn’t actually arranged it yet 
I knew immediately...

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Categories: french, friendship, life, love, nature,

Paint Me
Come and paint me naked and bare  

and meddle with the joy and sorrow that I bear,  

come and paint my dignity 

...

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Categories: french, class, community, culture, desire,

I Try To Try- For Yann Rolland
"i try to try" (for yann rolland)


write in English
rhyme in French

the music
is fantastic

a symphony
that is life



"j'essaye d'essayer" (pour yann rolland)


écrire en anglais
rime en français

la musique
est...

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Categories: french,

Premium Member French Doors
view of my backyard 
through dogs steamy wet kisses 
Kaleidoscope hues...

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Categories: french, life,



Peu De Lumiere
Peu de Lumière

The world got much dimmer today
Burning to illuminate the way 
This little light of mine...

Doesn't matter how dark it may get
A spark I...

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Categories: blue, dark, french, heartbreak,

Ultimatum of French Ambassador To Leave Niger In 48 Hours From Last Friday
When someone is told to go back in his country
 in peace, it is very wise to go early 
to avoid public shame. 
When the...

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Categories: french, africa, political,

Premium Member Making the French Seem Appealing
Audrey Hepburn
the darling of the sixties
in Paris making it posh and pretty
enticing her viewers to want to see the Eiffel Tower
Making the French appealing to...

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Categories: french, life,

Premium Member My Lovely Rose
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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Categories: celebration, environment, feelings, french,

Premium Member Kites
The Heraclee sky was a lurid, neon blue but the morning was surprisingly cool (at 54°). The antemeridian sun managed to cast sharp, surreal, black-hole...

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Categories: beach, feelings, french, life,

Premium Member La French Wench
"Whoever you are -- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
-- Blanche speaking to whoever you are

*   *   *...

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Categories: french, pain,

Trip To Taize
In days long past, my school did a pilgrimage to a small land of peace and reconciliation, that lay in the nation of passion and...

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Categories: french, friendship, friendship love, journey,

Fat Tuesday
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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Categories: french, celebration, christian, easter, faith,

Voltaire Translations
This is my modern English translation of a French poem by Voltaire, one of my all-time favorite writers. The poem is followed by two translations...

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Categories: crush, french, kiss, lost

Paul Valery Translation of Secret Ode
PAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”

“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set,...

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Categories: dance, french, night, sea,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things