Summer French Poems

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

one look full of longing later
in the glow of electric lips
a brush with the unknown...


those were the French films of your youth
your concomitant struggles for

© William Greco  

Paris was the perfect place
To start these summer games,
From the opening flotilla
To the lighting of the flames.

Instead of an arena,
Athletes floated down the Seine,
Waving flags

© Ilene Bauer  

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© James Peranteau  

Bass on conversation
a groovey thyme by all.
green leaves of summer
are the brown leaves of fall
This is worth mentioning
coring apples was boring
I was happiest at it's

© Allan Terry  

Day after day, I was sad and depressed.
All I thought about was Marie and her short dress;
Long flowing hair and beautiful smile:
I'm afraid I won't

© Duane Crichlow  

There once was a woman named Marie,
The most beautiful girl I've ever seen.
In the summer of June 2003,
I met her once in gay Paree.
We had

© Duane Crichlow  

Paris, earlier today. It’s a (vaccinated) summer family reunion and I’m catching up with relatives I haven’t seen for AGES. Like my impeccably dressed (three

© Anais Vionet  

Café Terrace in Arles, France

Beneath stars of heavenly grandeur,
In a café, romance prospects dwell brighter.
Patrons’ entertaining escapades of camaraderie
Charismatically whisper away the evening.

Visible under the

© Dennis Spilchuk  

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

© Michael Burch  

It was 50 years ago; yet the memory is so very vivid.             

© Curtis Johnson  

provence dry summers
aromatic lavender ~
waltz of the heart



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on May 28, 2020

© Line Gauthier  

Around the wet corners of summer
In the alleys of scooter-revving Paris
11 at night
A back light herd of red eyes
Bull-rush Champs-Elysees

Parting for an ambulance
Its siren wobbling

© Robert Trezise Jr.  

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

© Michael Burch  

Lagniappe 
 
Wide plantation shutters open 
  With the laziness of 
 	Summered streams 
To blink against the shimmering reflections 
 Of brilliant midday

© Sam Kauffman  

Northern vagabond 
winter is coming to peck you apart
it has a black ice heart
as it kisses your blue lips
the blood will leave the limbs
to protect

© Anthony Biaanco