Short Laurent Poems

Jacque Laurent Agasse
a vet he came to be
As a painter not so prolifique
but his horses were just the ticket...

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Laurent-Perrier cuvée brut,
Moet et Chandon follows suit,
Nicolas Feuillatte: brand is moot!
Only Krug is banned (too much loot).
Pommery, you will agree, is beaut!

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Let’s use Majorelle blue, okay?
I nodded.
Knowing nothing of it.

Morocco botanical garden blue.
Named for Jaques Majorelle.
French painter.

Nuturerer of gardens for forty years.
Eighteen years after his death.
Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Berge’ restored it.
A glorious lively cobalt blue....

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We should spend Christmas 
In Paris this year with Jean 
Christmas in Paris?

Spectacular plan
Let's buy the tickets and call 
Early and  call Jean 

Just then Tommy turned 
To them loaning his senses 
"I HOPE I'M GOING!"

"Intercontinental 
Paris  -  Le Grand great!"
"We need plan tickets."

Christmas in Paris 
With joyful friends Jean Paul and
Laurent Paul hurrah!

I can hardly wait 
Razzle dazzle Joan screamed hurrah!
Razzle dazzle day!...

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The last time I saw Paris
The lights had vanished from the skyline.
She sat quite calmly,
Speaking in a common tongue,
Words that soon dissolved like my intentions.
Her eyes met mine
Then turned away towards the moon.
I sat alone in midnight's room,
Lost in thought and memory;
Dreaming of what might have been,
Pleased with what will never be.






Copyright © 1997 -2018 by Benjamin Toney.  All rights reserved.
Image credit: Etienne Laurent/EPA...

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