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Havre Poems - Poems about Havre


penniless in Le Havre edited
...Penniless in le Havre. In the time of my nadir penniless in Le Havre in the drizzle, I saw the blue neon light of a bar I met sailors from my country they gave me cigarettes and wine also mone......

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Categories: havre, anti bullying, birth, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member GNRT DAY 21 A 27 FOOT PENGUIN AND SOME SWEET GRASS
... The Great Northern Road Trip is meant to follow Highway 2 from Washington to Maine. That’s how it was drawn up…that is how it is known but along the way (Seattle, Olympic, Glacier, Banff) we’ve t......

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Categories: havre, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Waste of Space
...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t......

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Categories: havre, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Impression Sunrise Footle
...sun rays soft glaze tawny shiny Monet's art ways airtouch light -touch teal hue ......

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Categories: havre, appreciation, art,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Vignette Feb 24
...A painter in Le Havre called Eugene Found the 'outside' mor his scene Monet quickly became a fan Claude taking aboard the views of this man- And so ,Impressionism began NOTE:VIGNETTE is a rhym......

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Categories: havre, art, people,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Photo Never Lies
...When I look at a recent photo of myself…I admit to sometimes feeling dread…because the photo that I’m seeing doesn’t match the picture in my head. In my head I am much younger…on this my heart and......

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Categories: havre, age, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Impression Sunrise
...tangerine sunrise~ oscillating reflections glow like a sketch of your smile at a glimpse of a new morn a medley of indigo and carrot as the sun floats in hazy sky like the sparkle of your eye......

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Categories: havre, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Kajal Ahmad Translations Kurdish
...Mirror by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet loose translation by Michael R. Burch My era's obscuring mirror shattered because it magnified the small and made the great seem insignificant. Dictator......

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Categories: havre, arabic, bird, conflict, earth,
Form: Free verse
Penniless In Le Havre
...Penniless in Le Havre At the time of my nadir penniless in Le Havre in the drizzle Saw a blue neon light of a bar I meet sailors there from my own country They gave me cigarettes and wine, mo......

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Categories: havre, allegory, endurance, engagement, eulogy,
Form: Sonnet
Initiation
...The Initiation It is not easy to be young at 16 I was a galley boy on a tankship that even then 60 years ago was ancient crewed by old mariners who spent their free time playing cards and talk......

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Categories: havre, absence, age, anniversary, art,
Form: Bio
Initiation
...The Initiation It is not easy to be young at 16 I was a galley boy on a tankship that even then 60 years ago was ancient crewed by old mariners who spent their free time playing cards and talk......

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Categories: havre, character, childhood, cinderella, community,
Form: Blank verse
Loss of Innocence
...The Loss of Innocence At a school sports day I was running 60 metres, I wanted so very much to win, could taste blood didn´t quite make it but got a bronze medal, which I wore on my lapel wit......

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Categories: havre, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Paris Gulls
...The scent of oceans, a certain coolness of wind over water wanders these city streets where oleander blooms wickedly in the ruby assignation of the heart. An occosional grayed gull, bonded to the Se......

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Categories: havre, memory, sea, sea,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Vignette-Just As Things Are
...A painter in Le Havre called Eugene Found the 'outside' mor his scene Monet quickly became a fan Claude taking aboard the views of this man- And so ,Impressionism began Note:Monet (1840-1926)&......

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Categories: havre, art, people
Form: Narrative

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