Holiday Paris Poems

63        The noises of Paris


There comes an age and wisdom,
When it is more interesting 
To listen to Shostakovich’s...

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It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She...

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WINTER IN PARIS

It’s winter in Paris and the streetlamps are alight
Couples walk along the Champs Elysee every night
They wander in and out of the cafes...

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The last time I saw Paris snow was gently falling,
It was, as I recall, toward the end of December.
Christmas shoppers to families excitedly calling,
The last...

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Reader Rabbit

Toward the end of a book,
we tend to speed up, 
in anticipation of the climatic finish. 

Yet sadly, 
the build-up...
was the part we savored,...

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Rose, the bloom

Sweet in color, 
eternal in fragrance,
majestic monarch of the flowers. 

Kind lady in red, 
a fine dress made of silk, 
or sometimes sheer...

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A European holiday, breakfast in the finest city in the world
Paris, so beautiful in the morning.
She sits with her back to the Eiffel Tower, 
because...

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Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn
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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One           ...

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I have never seen the Moon 
as beautiful
As I saw it in Paris
no distractions
Moonlight above the Pantheon
an empty sky
A new facade on a celestial
body
Goes unnoticed...

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BACKSTREETS OF PARIS (Monsieur L'Vampyre)
One spring and sunny day I set my sight
behind my darkened lenses, feigning night,
so I might stroll in my own way
and...

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Beside the Eiffel Tower, 
I walked alone;
and gaped at gardens
with cherry-hued blooms.
My lips had felt
the warmth of brew, 
while seraphs played
the strings of harp.

I toured...

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