Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
...Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer parking lots choc-a-bloc
Long insistent hor...
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Categories:
mairie, august, autumn, farewell, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One I
Even the turtle doves secretly in love in the sticky linden wake
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Categories:
mairie, august, autumn, farewell, september,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
... by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes the time too fretful on your hands
next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all
th...
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Categories:
mairie, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirty-Two
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty-Two
Late afternoon. Doldrums. The waters stood still. Was She asleep?
Lady Lake then drew her petticoat up to scratch Her shins deep.
At Embryo Islet ...
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Categories:
mairie, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Nine
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Nine
“Sire!” cried a lame yea-sayer: “I know this mad hookah addict!”
“Then drag him here by the scruff of neck be it hook or by trick!
But first when...
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Categories:
mairie, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat