RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” - 10
STANZA IX
Snubbed by Churchill, de Gaulle’s June 18th appeal
Saves not crushed Rouen, Paris to liberate
Triumphant Le Clerc hurries after ordeal
Did not Liberation make Resistants great
Nazi Chief’s deaf ear lets not Hitler burn Paris
Do the sacred cow Resistants scorn hubris
“Now e’en Presidents fear veteran Police!”
Ditto whole appareil judiciaire en lice!
Not till the last of veteran Combatants
Take Bastille Day’s Arc de Triomphe honoured place
Nor till Allied Forces be hailed true Conquérants?
ENVOI
Overnight the mother serves as plaything nice
For lawyers judges politicos police
All Free-Masons none resist as Resistants
No place for father and son in such premise
Nor till Allied Forces be hailed true Conquérants?
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
It's time to divide.
Please manage yours.
I'll do mine.
We'll fight together.
You're the lake,
the bay and the floodplain.
I am the current.
I don't need the Spanish-given.
My ancestors are sailors
And yours too.
Neither a bandit nor a pirate.
But the "resistants" to colonialists.
Please start yours.
I did mine.
Our rope is Islam.
And blessing is Nabi Muhammad.
For God's sake.
Please, do it.
Listen to the people.
To the voiceless!
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