Short Chateau Poems

A
healthy
prescription-
the red wine of
life...

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Chateau caravan
Stormy trailer sunsets.
Oregano purrs...

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Chateau caravan
Stormy trailer sunsets:
Oregano purrs...

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Sean Penn
we're not exactly sure when
met with El Chapo
in his underground chateau....

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Henry David Thoreau
Spent two years in a one room chateau 
Went to the pond to dip his booty
No dice – lifeguards off-duty...

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Un vacherin mont d'or
du chateabriand
et quelques oeufs en murette
caramel flottante
et chateau la fitte-
c'est si 
bon !...

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Salad & garlic croutons
A noodle stir fry
Sweet & sour diced chicken
hot garlic roasties
chateau-neuf-de pape
Hot cross buns
Gee !...

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Tasted, loved and disenchanted
I went from chateau blanc to become bitter
sommelier of myself vinegar at last
all love comes to an end one day...

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Old man winter has a chilly blast.
Oh, thank heavens it does not last.
Feel the wind and the snow,
Piling up on the chateau.
The effects of winter are vast....

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A lobster aspic chaud-froid
un petit pate
Beef with gold-leaf spangles
a morel suffle
edible candle *
a chateau
Bow!

*Louis XIV
*Chocolate truffles to you & me...

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A dozen pretty tulips
  grace her chateau
Ten yellow daffodills
  on her windowsill

Eight bright-red roses
  in a floral vase ~
Tickling her nose
  queen anne's lace...

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fine glaze
sun rays

teal sea
birds flee

warm glow
chateau 

soft blend
path end



7 June 2021

All Yours (June 7) Poetry Contest
By Brian Strand
1st Place...

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When I was a young'un many years ago
Dreamt of being famous, but had nothing to show
Till creativeness took hold
Blossomed forth so bold
Now I live in a opulent 30-room chateau? NOT!!!...

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Let my embattled heart
take refuge
within your fortress walls.
Give it the chance to mellow
in a slow healing process,
shedding the insipid taste
of bitter experiences,
then, let it learn to love again. 

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Gunshots pierces the silence of 
 the night
The shrill cries the shouts and 
 the flight
The herdsmen, spillers of blood are on 
 the Plateau
The Sheriff is seated on the high horse in 
 his Chateau
The Plateau people in such a hopeless 
 fight...

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His stock is rosy red, his nose
Blood-hound sensitive;
Cabernets, Chardonnay, 
Muscadet; Bacchus of the industry! 

Rolling the names around his tongue,
leaving no Chateau or wine unsung:
 Chateau Lafite, Chateau Latour, 
Chateau Mouton, Chateau Margaux....

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Flourished, the vintage affection of elegant talent
drizzled lightly in the exploration of a drowning yacht, 
 resurfaced, only through amiable bailing, 
continual, until the waves desist, 
the ocean arid, 
then lingers, 
submerged in the dip of the shoreline....

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All of those rooms I still dream of 
install a flame right under me.
Crawl if needed run when you can,
ball like a boss fight eagerly.

Renovate an outdated thought,
fate snuffed it out so long ago.
Elevate to match new enterprise,
create ‘A list’ I’m the chateau....

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There was a dirty old man named Hanky

   Who suggested they play Hanky-Panky

      Please meet me at my chateau

         Your hubby will never know

            She jabbed where it hurt and said No Thanky

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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Open up the Veuve Clicquot 
Only the best will do
I don't like faux anything 
When it comes to you
Real Irish sweater
Real hardcover book
Real thoughts in letter
Real Martin Brooke 
Real chateau, Lake Annecy
Only the best will do
I don't do faux anything 
When it comes to you...

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I would love
to return to France
to try and
save our romance.
Find a Chateau
that we could run.
Down south,
where there is sun.
Spend the summer
helping brides.
While in the winter
we would hide.
Evenings spent
by the fire.
As we rekindle
our desire.
I would love
to return to France.
If you would 
give me one more chance....

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Now, as my hair,eyes and ears slowly decay
I forgot what I remembered yesterday
It seems thereby
That I will not die
But slowly and so surely fade away!

I might not be known for my famous chateau
And I may not have amassed a lot of dough
With a smile I can't forget
My great love of chocolate
I'll be sure to take some with me as I go!...

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I popped out of a pink egg carton on a fine Monday morn.
Entered an eggbeater contest, ended tattered and torn.
Drank egg cream, did the most marvelous egg dance.
Started to England and ended up in a chateau in France.
Had a swig of fancy eggnog, Italy is where I landed.
Turned into an exaggerated egg-atic, sneaky, devious, and underhanded....

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MUSIC GIRL
when the music ends-
we no longer can pretend
LETTER GIRL
a few words
can make us ill-
or better
WINEGLASS GIRL
a girl with a glass
chateau red-
a touch of class
NECKLACE GIRL
mirror to face
with a necklace-
memory without a trace
PENSIVE LADY
lost in thought,
she sighs...caught
by vermeers eyes
PIANO GIRL
sing and play
concert,piano forte-
art,forgotten today...

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Our chateau promised picnic....

Upon the seashore sands

Strawberries and champagne

Cream, bathed amid beauty's

Silkened moonlight hands....

Soft sweet laughter

Caressing crystal's glass

Desires delicious platter

In destiny's, eternal plans....

Pink adorned pieces

Aside luscious perfumed pairs

Oceans tides of love

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...."Atop, Blue And White Squares" *...

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