coffee musset poem
coffee
morning delight
coffee
my wine
nightly delight
always so fine
with wife
drinking my wine
love life
poetry soup contest
Categories:
musset, food, love, magic, marriage,
Form: Free verse
(after Alfred de Musset)
I take the view that travel gets you wet.
There’s also wind and dust. And in the morning,
your clothes are crumpled. Is this tete-a-tete
worth all the hassle? I would end up yawning!
I take the view, there is no greater folly
than starting an affair far out of town.
Don’t go by Madame Laide or Missy Jolie,
for hotel plumbing always lets you down.
Sheer, well-adjusted stockings, white as milk:
a pretty dress, decked out in watered silk:
your toenails clean, and painted: what beats that?
Or do you think I’m talking through my hat?
I might as well speak Japanese to mice:
what lover ever listened to advice?
Categories:
musset, people,
Form: Sonnet