Long Poulet Poems

Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]

K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6

(NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice, I.e., 11. Eleven syllables to the line in iamb or...

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RECIPE:  "Poulet Roti"  French Style - Instalment One
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If...

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...Hoender - Afrikaans, Pulë - Albanian, ???? - Arabic, ?????? - Belarusian, ???? - Bulgarian, 
Pollastre - Catalan, ? - Chinese (Simplified), ? - Chinese (Traditional), Piletina - Croatian, 
Kurecí - Czech, Kylling - Danish,...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - La Ballade “Le Chant Royal” -Concluding Stanza

(Note: As you can see, I have taken certain liberties with the fixed form, but have always kept close to the spirit of...

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Au uh de vino
one bottle of white wine
1/2 cup of chopped tarragon
7 cracked garlic cloves
1/2 cup of green onions
2 tablespoons of gingerroot minced
1 red hot chili (smashed)
5 Tablespoons of fish stock


in a gallon container add...

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6 CHICKEN THIGHS
1 RABBIT ( IN PEICES)
3 tABLESPOONS OF CAYENE PEPPER
5 tABLESPPONS OF ROSEMARY
3 tABLESPOONS OF tHYME
5  TABLESPOONS OF MINCED GARLIC
3 CUPS OF SLICED MUSHROOMS
1 CUP OF YELLOW BELL PEPPER
1 CUP OF CHOPPED HAM
1...

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Sometimes writing poetry is my mistake,
Better to embark on a large cargo ship,
Which will take you to Tahiti or Honolulu,
Better give candy to a blue-eyed schoolgirl,

Sometimes writing poetry is my mistake,
Better to cook a chicken...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style – Le Chant Royal (Instalment 3)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE) 

STANZA  II

Cut the hot-water supply, make...

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RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 4)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE)

STANZA III
The idea's to pluck the chicken naked...

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RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 5)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE)

STANZA IV
One thing's to find fourteen-storey toilet waste
Stealthily...

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RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 2)

             Stanza  I
COQ knows best how to pluck the wayward chicken
Quill by...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 8

STANZA VII

The warning first comes from the job’s admin head:
“The Secret Service will persecute you to death!”
Then they drum the son hammer and tongs on...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 7

STANZA  VI

“Come, join us! Stand alone and we’ll make you sweat!
See how your spouse sucks with us, so will your son!
Those who prop you...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 11

    STANZA  X

Even as this Royal Lay comes to an end
Yet one more crime hatched on one more ruse and lie
Gets...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” - 10

STANZA  IX

Snubbed by Churchill, de Gaulle’s June 18th appeal
Saves not crushed Rouen, Paris to liberate
Triumphant Le Clerc hurries after ordeal
Did not Liberation make...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 9

STANZA VIII

The French way is to damn you as litigant
Constant professional victim of the Law
Make you read law books be your own defendant
Rush about hang...

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