Work French Poems

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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i was coming from the break room
ready to open something sweet
when i pass by the room of a smiling kid
it was Christmas Day and the...

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Your not going to believe this but I forgot that Jeanne Rosemary comes before Robert Earl.Probably because I am mad at her for not trying...

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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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I confess that these are false memories
as I’ve never been to the Paris’ and it’s
arrondissements, and these days, I avoid
air travel what with climate change.
Yet...

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There once was a girl named Sabine
The cutest one I’d ever seen
She had curly hair
And a teddy named Bear
And her bedroom was perfectly clean.

Sabine had...

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Why the translation? Because French is a pretty language.
mon petit chou is a term of endearment “my little cabbage.”

Leaning in—
Listening
To small things,
Big issues.
Work consumes
Your time.

Occasionally,
A...

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A Saint's fate is in a sinner's hands.
A saint's decisions are to fix those of a sinner's.
Saints and sinners rely on each other;
Sinner's rely on...

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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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My friend opines, men are strong, but women
are much stronger enough to make them weak;
It's difficult to believe; Are men meek?
Hurting men's ego; how he...

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On a day a number of centuries ago
John Calvin met the great heroine, Joan of Arc,
they both had much indeed in common
in their lives, on...

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If I were to frenchify myself
I would walk more often
Maybe to work. 
It is only twenty-seven miles.

But how would I get over the river?
Would I...

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THEY COVERED A WIDE RANGE OF APPROACHES
CERTAIN ONE'S THEY SOUGHT UNFIT, BUT WOULD
REVISE THEM TO HAVE OTHER'S INPUT, THE INPUT
FROM THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TAUGHT...

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The Sun King (Roi Soleil)

The eyes and lips reveal the majestic, arrogant, smug smile
Of King Louis the Fourteenth, poised pompously in regal style.
Painted in robe...

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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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