Short Jour Poems

seek awakening
TGIF awesome fall
mystery du jour...

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Night file nevers
illegal love embraces
consummate past lives...

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Poetry
Soup du jour.
Love in action
As gratitude fills the bowl.
Eat up....

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"soupe du jour"


oignon français
la normandie

c'est what?
say, "oui!"...

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every time we risk
the world continues to spin
destinies collide





angel card du jour #14...

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a double parrilada
beef empanados
chimchurri chips
morcilla pudding
dulce de leche ice cream
provlone
cheese!...

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Of all the times in my life, 
I never thought I'd see,
The best of the best, 
Cooking SOUP with me! 

Thanks....Judy...

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Vous êtes ma vie de jour et de nuit. 
Vous êtes la lumière je vois. 
Vous êtes mon succès clé. 
Sans vous, où est-ce que je fais?...

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You know you can't go out to play
For today is the Sabbath Day
You must keep it holy
You can't be their goalie
So go to your corner and pray!...

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Sweet corn & haddock chowder
Onion millefeuille
Pheasant breast in mushroom sauce
Poppy seed bread roll
with fennel butter
Plat au jour
d'hui...

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Un jour, la nuit,
Un soir, très tard,
Je me suis perdu dans mon désespoir.
De mes idées noires, j'ai tiré mon savoir,
Et j'ai finis ce vers,
Sans jamais le boire....

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Conscience makes
the liars weep
The feeble strong
the dreamers sleep

It calls beyond
the thickest door
Forever’s shadow
—fate du jour

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)...

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Being self-titled
aristocrat pure
Heraldry solemn
 liege a du jour

Knighted in fealty 
 loyalty’s throne
Crusading triumphant
—honor atoned

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)...

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                                              Purple majesty
                                       Little Red Corvette du jour
                                              The Beautiful Ones...

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"Hey, Waiter!  There's a shark doing the backstroke in my soup du jour!"

"I wouldn't worry too much about it sir!  He won't eat much of it for sure!"

Entry for Anthony Slausen's "Shark In The Soup" Contest...

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Elle est belle
Une relation bien établie
Jesus-Christ notre appui
Toujours là
Il guide nos pas
Rempli de son amour
Livré chaque jour
Voilà son amitié
Toujours prêt à partager 
Lesson du coeur
Où le bon Dieu demeure...

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A cockroach did some backstrokes in Clyde's soup

   He was quite alarmed and thrown for a loop

      The waiter said no sweat

         Sir, there's no need to fret

            He won't consume very much of your soup...

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“You play words like an instrument”
someone once said
Each vowel as a whole note
to consonants wed

High praise from a seeker
deftly looking for more
New songs in the making
—words singing du jour

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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It dawned.
                     Slowly. In chorus.

In plique-à-jour.

I see, through first born,
light, a second time,
restlessly still,
                           
               required, I breathe...

To breathe once more....

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No never no calls
From daughter or son
No never it seems
Nobody no way. 
Daughter is plastic
And son is too old
No never, no calls,
Never, no way.
Industrial pimping
To arouse a eyebrow,
But to take a mere moment
No, never, no way....

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Bien ouvert
Amitiés
Bien touché
Entre nous
La force au bout
Coeur grandit
Parmis lui
Gros changement
À tout les croyants
Resté humble
Parmis la vie de la jeungle
Gardé la foie
C'est bien notre choix
Jour après jour
Remplissons l'amour...

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Do not make our President cry
Screw your neighbors until they die

Do not make an elephant cry
Shoot them first, don't wonder why

Do not make our Congress cry
Grope the girls and tell a lie

Do not make the media sad
In America, all is bad...

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Sourire épuisant
Émotions si joyeuses
Il n'y a que nous deux
Couleur si brillante
J'entends les échos du jour
N'es t-elle pas charmante
Jaser un peu
Les amoureux
Caresser vous
Je vous avoue
Oublions-les ennuies
L'amour j'y suis
Nous voilà la nuit...

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To hell with your endorsement,
how false opinion reigns
My words to seek a higher realm
where spirit is reclaimed

As critics in a barrel,
the bottom layer is yours
To hum and drum reflected yarn
—self-serving au du jour

(The New Room: June, 2022)...

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#1
bats swarm from their caves
flying bugs are swept from sky
raptors of the air

#2
rain puddles on lawn
robin cocks his head slightly
earthworms heard not seen

#3
gulls attack shallows
survival of the lucky 
caviar du jour

Long Tooth
July 7, 2016...

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