Prayer French Poems

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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Une Prière pour la Liberté!

Note: I used "A Prayer for Freedom" as the title of the poem because this site does not...

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PRIÈRES DANS LA NUIT



j’essaie autant que je peux
de paraître forte
à ses côtés

sa douleur est de retour

autant que possible je profère 
des platitudes réconfortantes
je ne sais...

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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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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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An observation,
        there are some who live for $;
      and what $ can...

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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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Our Lady?

You are our lady
of grace.
And now your dress?Is flames.?
The beauty of your sunken dome from a drone
Is a poem in itself.
Written by us and
Destroyed...

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It was September 
Of one thousand 
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with...

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