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Friday in FranceHow lucky we are the Olympics
Will be starting, this Friday, in France!
After all this political trauma,
We can wake from this terrible trance.
We can focus on swimming and tennis,
Gymnastics and polo and track.
Cheer for volleyball, diving...
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Categories:
appreciation, paris, sports,
Form: Rhyme
hollywoodIn Paris, society people unironically dress for dinner, go to cocktail parties (where the hostess has an obvious drinking problem), dine with Catholic Bishops, industrialists, politicians and occasional celebrities (usually for charity) in places dripping...
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Categories:
paris, adventure, celebrity, growing up,
Form: Free verse
strange shroudsI sat in restless chairs
I breathed stilted air
what feeling compares
with feeling squandered?
I’m not sadfishing,
I was bored in a 5-star hotel.
I’d swum the Atlantic - in the underground pool
and I felt like I was marinating in...
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Categories:
boyfriend, conflict, endurance, paris,
Form: Free verse
VersaillesIn a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.
It’s a five-star bash at the palace...
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Categories:
paris, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse
On Champs-Elysees Avenue
Categories:
change, happy, paris,
Form: Rubai
lemon-shineThe bright sunrise made the snow-covered Alp mountain-tips, an hour-away-by-car, glow like they were topped with lemon ice-cream. Was this evidence of magic?
Peter (my bf) and I are low atop the five story Hotel de...
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Categories:
boyfriend, paris, student, summer,
Form: Free verse
Mondo DuplantisGreg Duplantis finished fifth in the Olympic trial,
But this pole vaulter would not accept that cruel denial.
He hatched an elaborate plan which was just his style.
He hailed heptathlon's Helena Hedlund with a...
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Categories:
humor, hyperbole, paris, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Armand DuplantisI sat, uninspired, in my condo.
When on TV, no routine John Doe
Flew above a balloon
And then over the moon,
That amazing pole vaulter, Mondo....
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Categories:
humor, hyperbole, paris, sports,
Form: Limerick
Rue Saint-HonoreIt's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and...
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Categories:
paris, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
''What Beauty Is To The Geometrist'' ReprisedWhat beauty is (to the geometrist),
is the shape of the Golden Ratio!
Beauty is courage, the defiant fist
of a protector fear can't overthrow.
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Categories:
paris, beauty, literature, love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
milk coffeeThe milk coffee skies of Paris in May,
make the Seine river look insanely gray.
At sunrise it’s quiet -
the traffic’s mostly bikes
our digs are luxurious and private
my school stress is waning - it’s nice
I want to...
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Categories:
boyfriend, happiness, may, paris,
Form: Rhyme
the grand masked ballWe’re in Paris, staying with my Grandmère (Grandmother) for a few days around Mother’s day.
Peter (my bf) is getting to know my Grandmère. They’ve started to relax and enjoy each other. This time, when they...
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Categories:
paris, boyfriend, fun, grandmother, mothers
Form: Free verse
What Beauty Is To The GeometristWhat beauty is (to the geometrist),
is the shape of the Golden Ratio!
Beauty is courage, the defiant fist
of a protector fear can't overthrow;
...
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Categories:
beauty, forgiveness, mythology, paris,
Form: Sonnet
bistroPeter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This is the...
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Categories:
boyfriend, humor, paris, student,
Form: Free verse
fly awayPeter had to fly,
was that just last night?
I have attachment issues.
I hate saying goodbye
- it always makes me cry
an embarrassing tear or two.
Holidays go so fast
relativity’s been proven at last!
Fourteen days of leisure
of sordid intertwined...
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Categories:
boyfriend, humor, parents, paris,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Paris Poems
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