Short Bastille Poems

in every crowd I see,
there is a Bastille....

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'Neath the Sacre Coeur,
Firecrackers bursting nearby,
Nelly first kissed me.

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There was a black colt from Bastille
Who wooed a fair filly at Lille
She asked, “Do you know ?”
He replied, “So so”
So she had to lead him through the drill...

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Like a newborn babe
Girdled by
A colony of ants,
Like a bird in
A wooden cage,
Like a prisoner
In the Bastille,
Each human life
Is ensnared with
A great number
Of hurdles:
The path of life
Is never laden with
Silk and blossoms.
If we endeavour indeed,
We’ll attain life’s ambrosia....

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84 people dead,
No regret said,
More critical, holding on,
Somebody’s partner, someone’s son.

France stands for liberty, 
Which was wrought on Bastille Day, 
When the people overturned, 
The government who learned. 

Don’t let religion in, 
Pure democracy’s win, 
Grit your teeth and hold on 
To derogate ISIS and religion....

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The day is gone,
we raised our arms,
painted the face,
we were exposed
we went straight invade the Bastille
 stormed, Brasilia,
tear down the Wall... !
We did nothing, 
and the game was crooked
to be continued...
The peace, maligned,
love, unconjured,
but they applauded hate
and exalted...
Anarchy is the dominant
 Idea...
Most value has now
  the added value... !...

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They
fought for
Liberté,
égalité
et fraternité
in a revolution
against royal tyranny
by a careless, selfish monarch.
On July 14th, they stormed the Bastille
in the first major act of violence
against nobles and the bourgeoisie.
The third estate, the poor, starving
watched as madam guillotine
despatched the King and Queen,
and their divine right
in a revolt
where many
lost their
heads....

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.....we have heard about the French Bastille
 and America's Boston Tea Party - revolutions 
that reminded those at the top that those at the bottom 
are human too, feeling love, pain, hunger and contentment. 
You yourself are a walking revolutionary in the making. The 
moment you become true to yourself, you cause ripples in the 
minds of those around you. They fight against everything
that you have become. They fight against the new you.......

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Dressed for comfort and play
   worn blue jeans
signature red jackets --
   as red as the distinctive tricots
of revolutionary Bastille days -- 
   their slide whistles shrieking
their drums booming defiance
   chanting slogans
blocking rush-hour traffic
   echoes of 'Madame Guillotine...' 

These school-teachers
   turned performance artists
torpedo sincere, generous proposals
   to further the educational 
and vocational prospects of
   360,000 public school students...

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Fete Nationale finally came about on July 14th 1789
When the commoners stormed the Bastile so fine.
Their crops had failed that summer, and it went to their head.
They were spending ninety-percent of their salary on bread

The Tyranny of King Louis the Fourteenth was not sliding by
His wife was lavishly spending, and they owned the gun power supply.
Prisoners were being locked up in the Bastile with no trial whatsoever.
So the French Revolution was started – a worthwhile endeavor....

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