Long Gustave Poems

The Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel)

‘Iron Lady,’ of sensual beauty in the ‘City of Light:’
(La Dame De Fer: Bienvenue a Paris, France!)

Built to be the world’s tallest structure at 300 meters,
As the gateway entrance to...

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"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...

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Men, they say
Dominators
Slayers
Conquerors

We have been subjugated by their culture and rules
The norms and the religions of masculine fools
The laws and the clowns
The world one day will evolve

We who have the curves and seductive smiles
Are we...

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It has been raining everyday
The wet autumnal wind is here
And Mommy Maine just left us today
Peacefully.  She just expired, dear
This Ebony Queen was a century plus six years young
Mommy Maine never got old. Beautiful...

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"He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens."
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"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the poetic rules
virtuous and unsoiled

aa bb cc dd
pristine are us
sanctimonious sugared...

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JESUS AND PETER ON THE WATER
(Gustave Brion) 

Walking on the water, 
Walking on the sea, 
I see Jesus walking, 
Walking towards me, 

Coming, He's coming near, 
In fear, I'm dismayed, 
He says, "Take heart, it's...

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it's subjective whether it's interesting at all
bye bye those that look no further than here
nothing mesmerising will be said, cast iron on that
it's more about breaking surface tension 
tiny pockets of vision that create a...

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Writing poetry draws one within
allowing the inward self to demonstrate
all that's been down there deep and dark
making your light shine before its too late

Irritation is a descriptive word
one that we all seek to emulate
it tasks...

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(Fact not fiction. True research).

Birth place creation from France
The one and only Queen of freedom 
Along side of Queen of England.
Sculptured design by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
The statue of liberty was and built by Gustave Eiffel.
Arrived...

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She's lost in thought, 
Childhood memories flash through her, 
They come like torrents, 
Opening the door to her mind, 
In her, her past finds a place. 

She reminisces on fond and bitter memories, 
A deluge...

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Madame Bovary is the première novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. It tells the melancholy story of the entitled marriage into a lackluster middle-class lifestyle that ends in tragedy.


Docteur Bovary: Blessed Are...

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L'Origine du monde
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