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no answer no response 3

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 I know there are no answers in Saint Germain des Prés
Or in Copacabana, nor on the top of Everest,
That’s why we’re listening to Albert Camus,
That we eat frog legs,

There is no respon...

Categories: germain, appreciation, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

I write only for you

...I write only for you,
Not for the king, so smart,
Not for Paris,
Not for the mirrors of the sky,
I only write for you.

I do not write for the abbot
Who weeps before God,
I don’t write for th...

Categories: germain, appreciation, hello, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Clerihew Delibes

...Leo.Delibes of Germain du Val
a 'loner' it seems  sans a pal
Composing though his thing
lilting tunes to which to bring...

Categories: germain, music, people,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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 of epigrams by Voltaire.

Les Vous et Les Tu (“You,...

Categories: germain, crush, french, kiss, lost
Form: Free verse

Flower For Her Hair

...FLOWER FOR HER HAIR
You lose your heart in Saint Germain
and fall in love too soon again
too quick and furious to know
where love comes from, where it may go
and then you walk together by the Se...

Categories: germain, age, fate, lost love,
Form: Lyric

The River of No Return

...THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
The Rue St. Germain is alone and still   
though cool is the night with a summer chill
the fog from the Seine comes right up the hill
and street lamps dance the whole night...

Categories: germain, absence, beauty, destiny, farewell,
Form: Epitaph

Tales of a Paris Flaneur

...Early days as a flaneur;
I recall the couple 
On the Metro
When I was still innocent 
Of its labyrinthine complexities;
Slim pretty white girl,
Clad head to toe 
In new blue denim, 
Wistfully...

Categories: germain, friend, loneliness, pain, paris,
Form: Prose Poetry

Empress of Ireland

...THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND

Two mighty workhorses, colliding Titans,
Leviathans of the Saint Lawrence river.
Devastation’s maritime wrecking balls,
Slamming head on, even after the warnings 
Sounding, ha...

Categories: germain, boat, death, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Flower For Her Hair

...FLOWER FOR HER HAIR
You lose your heart in Saint Germain
and fall in love in Paris rain
too quick and furious to know
where love comes from, where it may go
and then you walk together by the Seine.

...

Categories: germain, angst, art, black african
Form: Rhyme

Stay At Home Moms

...Tribute to stay at home moms
                  ( from a writing by melvina germain)  10/28/11

To the stay at home moms (sahm) I must say
I honor you in every way.
I made my wife stop working wh...

Categories: germain, wife, work, home, change,
Form: Rhyme

"big Bro"

...You made me believe dreams come true
you made me see what I had to do
always thinking of what you said
enjoy the present cause I got a future ahead
but now it's so hard
because you're not here
...

Categories: germain, brother, childhood, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Twin Flames

...Twin flames I see in the shades of mystic colors.
One, which holds the world on the brink of falling,
One, which shall burn until infinity and beyond,
Many swirls, which confirm life beyond this e...

Categories: germain, faith, life, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

An Infinitesimal Ton of Stuff

...Me a pack-rat?
Is you crazee?
I gots me a path to walk,
From one room to annudder
So who is you to talk?

I gotz at me fingatips
Alls dat Eyes could kneed
Like 1972 newspapers
Which I ain't ...

Categories: germain, confusion, funny, life, mystery,
Form: Burlesque