Roti Poems

WE GOBBLED GOATS CHEESE

WE GOBBLE GOAT’S CHEESE


Scales of justice weighed in gold and coal
cherubs and demons cheer without fear
horns blow, rooms gather fat

Coaxing a grey Persian cat 
climb stairs of glamour 
or disillusioned clamour 

Heads dance across Florentine floor
joy shiver silent at a wooden door 
hazardous stealth the cunning core

Roti fry in sesame oil to serve 
with Côté

Re-Birth

I
Oestre was a name of a fertility goddess, in Iran, then PERSIA
What a rich history, what an embattled people! Cyrus their King
Did great things for the Jews, the ancient Hebrews, freed by him
Then Cyrus directed the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, ZION
Long after him, Zoroaster used FIRE as a sign, who took it to

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - Concluding Stanza

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - La Ballade “Le Chant Royal” -Concluding Stanza

(Note: As you can see, I have taken certain liberties with the fixed form, but have always kept close to the spirit of the ballade’s form: rhyme, metre, stanza, envoi, and, now, concluding stanza addressed to an important royal personality. Exceptions are the

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 11

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 11

    STANZA  X

Even as this Royal Lay comes to an end
Yet one more crime hatched on one more ruse and lie
Gets committed to drive this one round the bend:
“Bite the bait, harrowed be, before you die!”
Same message for more than half

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 10

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

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 9

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 9

STANZA VIII

The French way is to damn you as litigant
Constant professional victim of the Law
Make you read law books be your own defendant
Rush about hang in queues write letters in awe
To lawyers judges ministers presidents
Cull evidence witnesses sealed documents
Which lawyers misplace refuse to cite in

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 8

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 8

STANZA VII

The warning first comes from the job’s admin head:
“The Secret Service will persecute you to death!”
Then they drum the son hammer and tongs on head
After mounting terror to cut short his breath:
“We’ll slaughter your dad just as your mom we spurn
Do as we say

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 7

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 7

STANZA  VI

“Come, join us! Stand alone and we’ll make you sweat!
See how your spouse sucks with us, so will your son!
Those who prop you up depart, yes, with regret.
Men can’t pull their weight alone under any sun!”
“I have a book I consult from time

Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - 6

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6

(NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice, I.e., 11. Eleven syllables to the line in iamb or anapeste, interposed with dactyls, I guess, and of course with the ENVOI added. Eleven lines to the STANZA in eleven

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Le Chant Royal - Instalment 5

RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 5)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE)

STANZA IV
One thing's to find fourteen-storey toilet waste
Stealthily creep up your ground-floor shower drain
Another's to watch the migrant surgeon paste
Some part of your body he cuts up -

Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style -Le Chant Royal - Instalment 4

RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 4)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE)

STANZA III
The idea's to pluck the chicken naked dead
But to keep it alive so long as there's fun
Stick pins and needles all the time on its head
So that

Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style Le Chant Royal Instalment 3

RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style – Le Chant Royal (Instalment 3)

(Note: Rhyme scheme of “Le Chant Royal” where capital “E“stands for refrain, thus – Stanza: ababccddedE, Envoi: ddedE) 

STANZA  II

Cut the hot-water supply, make chicken freeze
Tear up the electric connections, the telephone
Ensure chicken swallows upstairs dust, e’en sneeze
Fix the plumbing, flood coop with merde

Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style - Le Chant Royal - Instalment 2

RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 2)

             Stanza  I
COQ knows best how to pluck the wayward chicken
Quill by feather each pock-mark telltales French skill
Twisted beck wan crooked claws warts on bruised skin
Thus MARIANNE marinates asylum swill
Let filter no

Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style - Instalment One

RECIPE:  "Poulet Roti"  French Style - Instalment One
                         I
If as for so many LIFE solutions
Come bottled in prescriptions
Like the burning SOUL's hunger for PEACE
Through LOVE and FORGIVENESS with ease
Then

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