Dream Paris Poems

An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like...

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The pose
The steps
The posture
Fashionable designed
Fit to the fullness
Her passion unwinds.

In the line
The walkway
A runway
Overtaken
Stares and glares
As the Model passes by.

A Long extraordinary evening gown
With diamonds...

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I'd like to be sitting in a café in France 
Eating strawberries and cream with you
I'd find the biggest and reddest and juiciest ones
And feed...

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Walking in the back streets of Paris
On a warm balmy evening
Talking with a friend enjoying 
The night and watching 
As the people went on their...

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Might I speak love to the standing wench 
And her offer the space on my bench? 
Will I ever the strong urge quench 
To praise...

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This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery...

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Skylar
Daughter, Poet, Reader, Daydreamer
Sister of Eliza and Veronica
Lover of writing, France, and animals
Who feels calm, empathy, and love
Who fears being forgotten, needles, and the future
Who...

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Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch...

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Polished, worth everlasting stones
Surrounded by hidden atmospheres
The river flows from all
In the midst unknown 
Of the blue sky, not a dream
Knowing all worth the while
A...

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Le Balcon (The Balcony)
Charles Baudelaire
trans. Michael R. Burch

Paramour of memory, ultimate mistress,
source of all pleasure, my only desire;
how can I forget your ecstatic caresses,
the warmth...

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There is a city that is calling to me.
But right now, it’s as far as far can be.
I will go there one day, of that...

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I do not know her
I daydream of her
she
who writes me love letters...

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7 pm wake up call


Today I had the strangest dream.
There was you and I, working side by side,
In a café down the street.
I guess we...

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"PARIS"


Her perfume follows him
from room to room
Lily-of-the-Valley-Roses
lingers in the corners 
of his mind, the hollow of 
his neck
a soft kiss some hot moment back
in time,...

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I sauntered in an evening mist
   A midnight's heaven, magic-kissed
      Lamp-lit raindrops pattered, awesome
    ...

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