Long Versailles Poems

For soon the rains of destiny will fall
as innocence capitulates its soul.
Aggression sealed your fears within a wall
to let disease and hunger take their toll.
Your rank-and-file dissolved into the night
with nary whisper echoing their names,
‘tis...

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EARTHLY TO HEAVENLY MANSION 

When I think of a Mansion I think, 
of one with “Vintage appeal,”
Stone architecture, welcoming pillars, 
A monumental royalty feel.

Great palms and great magnolia trees,
Defining the estate’s history, 
Pathways of fragrant...

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as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon

          hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy

       ...

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Unseen forces like real native spirits
in red clay cliffs who show painted faces.
Singing songs echoed in faint voices:
tattered tribes, shamed souls, sacred spaces.
Hidden hurts of primitive peoples
have effects that only time erases.

Unseen forces from privileged...

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Below is a quote written by one of my favorite authors Rod McKuen. He has been one of my greatest inspirations and his book "Listen To The Warm" changed my writing style. I wrote essays...

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Now you’re turning to the south
To save your battered face,
To claim some sort of victory
By flattening the place.

If soldiers cannot win your war
You’ll bomb and you will shell:
Blow everything to smithereens,
Turn towns to living hell.

Your...

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Ah, Paris, is still calling me, as a romantic lover that has been the 
                 background of my dreams....

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Paris the ideal place where a French kiss began
The country of romance and love
Love is a virtue we all long to endure
Romance and passion come along with it as well
This country is full of beautiful...

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(Aborted attempt to mend fences, -
which version overly pedantic for
her minimal leisure/down time as
full time student at University.)
no...no...no...this tree
mend dose electronic
     endeavor of mine, ya see
NOT predicated on

   ...

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Austrian princess taken from her home,
stripped of everything that she ever known.

Her mother arranged a political marriage,
sending her to France with a horse and carriage

Off to Versailles to meet her destiny,
To take the Dauphin's hand...

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June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, allied troops landed on the beaches, an
unpleasant day that started in the early morning hours in
Normandy, France, and turned the tides of World War II. The
effect was the beginning...

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Termites  
                           chatter
     ...

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The Eiffel Tower stabbed at a midnight
as blue as an old Muddy Waters track.
From a distance, its lace-iron skeleton
looked like a slick and oily spider-web
crowned with a glittering neon diamond.

(My Grandmère's home is across the...

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I

wet cat impaled on telegraph poles
serrated ashbrown fur
tinged with flinting silver
a mirror blue
cut by guitar strings on a shining plate
bathed in molten evening shine

jet streaks through pylon barrage
windshield wipers’ hemicircular swipe

dry cat’s crusty baguette fur
ashen...

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Beautiful distinguished young Lady of Austria, 

destined to be the Queen of France and Navarre, 

fourteen years old, must follow Royal criteria, 

take role of consort, to become France's shining star, 


King Louis Auguste's marriage...

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My lifetime dream hasn't been realized yet;
I like to travel to Europe where History was made.
I will start with the glorious city of Rome
with its ancient monuments which still fascinate!

I like to see one of...

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Villanelle: French Gourmand once sailed to the Isle of Ewe
  
     Dedicated to the great French actor, Off Course!

French Gourmand once sailed to the Isle of Ewe
Must you invite high...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XIII

If you pull a lean long face
Each day in fear of the next Saturday
Time to tone down High C voice in Elysée Palace
Yellow Jackets are closing in on...

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La dernière valse

From the skies
Clouds fall upon my dreams
I am up high, away from it all
I am far, but my tears still fall
I stand up and shout to Paris ( Pareee)
You left me, you left...

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The Great Levels Of Our Love

It starts with lavender and baby powder
My lover knows the fragrance and scents of love
The ardent aroma, baby soft kisses and caresses
Soft music lingering over our cozy balcony
Overlooking the Champs-Elysee...

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Dream vacations, many I had
from Trinidad to Petrograd.
Stood on great pyramids, great walls,
watched dying swans in gilded halls.
Threw a penny in a fountain;
flew around the highest mountain.
Observed the wildebeest roam wild,
ran river rapids undefiled.
Under painted...

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She is a salt tower, a beacon stood
On thimble cliffs and gulfs of giant steps
Swallowing her apple core and flooding
Night with a mouthful of demons
Lighting the way to perfection 
As she overshadows her own alliances

She...

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"Heel"

Another language speaks its truth
one’s truth is another’s war
Agamemnon and his achilles

to heel a virtue
to heal a cause
such an odyssey

styx and stones
Clytemnestra, silent 
spartan subdued

a loss, a child
innocence stolen, spilt
on another’s alter for Troy

a loss,...

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I build castles in the sand,
ive done the Pantheon the Taj Mahal
and even the Versailles.

Like my life my castles in the sand are here for
a limited time, to be swept away by the blow of
the...

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After a long flight our plane is about to touch down
The city of Paris awaits so many new memories about to be found 
Off to the Eiffel Tower for dinner a month watering culinary delight...

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