Not so Glorious French Cuisine
...The Not so Glorious French Cuisine
The French are fond of foods most Americans
would freak out on, and they’re not bargains.
Let’s start with the least freakish: rabbit (lapin) –
farm rais...
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Categories:
patisserie, food,
Form: Free verse
French Flair
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Paris, paradigm of “je ne sais quoi “-
Great Gallic mystery, almost a law.
Evincing an essence, cannot say how -
Shrug of a shoulder with lift of a brow.
But stroll down a stre...
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Categories:
patisserie, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
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The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and White’ POTD 6 March. They wanted to know m...
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Categories:
patisserie, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Shy In the 12th Degree
...My devious plot worked
A beautiful woman talked to me!
All because of my shirt!
I might as well have been superman
All decked out in Canadian Red
If only I had anticipated........
If only m...
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Categories:
patisserie, beauty, heart, mystery, passion,
Form: Light Verse
Patisserie Alice
...Patisserie Alice
Roll of stratagem with a pinch of skullduggery
That was the only thing I missed in this pâtisserie...
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Categories:
patisserie, fun,
Form: Couplet
Chocolate Fanatic
...white & black these are some of its color..
square, sphere, heart shape and more..
bitter, sweet and bittersweet..
with nuts, almonds and mallows..
local up to a patisserie made..
they are all a...
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Categories:
patisserie, feelings, food, for her,
Form: Imagism
Sweet Pleasure
...I slowly cut a corner off my prize
No cause to hurry, see I at this time
To savor, such a treat sees no despise
If one knows not this joy, that is a crime
The layers compliment this god-like cream
T...
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Categories:
patisserie, chocolate, food, funny, sweet,
Form: Sonnet
C'Est La Vie
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He came back to France
Many years ago, to find his one true love
To have his life with her once more
the beautiful woman he'll forever adore
He longs to be the one to call her, his...
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Categories:
patisserie, life, sad, day, life,
Form: Free verse
Joie De Vivre - Isn'T Life Sweet
...Joie de Vivre - isn’t life sweet,
especially when you add a treat
like a delicious patisserie,
crème glacée, éclairs, le pan de mie,
chocolat, and le tarte aux fruits?
Eat not just fib...
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Categories:
patisserie, food, joy, life, sweet,
Form: Rondeau
From Lips To Hips
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In Cognac
oh Cognac...
my sweet little town in France
Out I stepped
for an evening stroll
on the cobbled streets
And there I ...
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Categories:
patisserie, food, passion,
Form: Epulaeryu
Paris, Mon Amour
..."when the Gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers"
--line from the film "Out of Africa"
She stopped, transfixed, a breathless
butterfly pinned to a board...
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Categories:
patisserie, hope, lossparis,
Form: Blank verse