Short Riviera Poems

it sits like
glass

a soft dreamy
ocean

decorated with dolphin
smiles

cradling the American
Riviera...

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Greenland will be our posh winterland plaza
Blueprints unfold for a Riviera Gaza
Just hot air baloneyism
Or old-fashioned colonialism?
Panamanians shout leave! Viva la Raza!...

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senior year's start and Guy's Buick Riviera . . luxury loving

Sept. 2, 2020
Note: Guy is the name of the French Canadian I met and briefly dated, 1972. 
It's pronounced as GEE...

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randy, Rubenesque, robust, romantic
loving their Grecian vacation
honeymooners who know how to honeymoon
living in the moment
learning each other in the most delightful ways
heating up the Riviera...

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Substance


                          There is no difference between differences

                           Except in the substance of their essences










02/20/2021
3:45 p.m.
Riviera Beach
Florida  USA...

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Dust



                         Flecks of dust awaits gust of abundant wind

                         Destinations unknown just avoiding the rain



  







  02/21/2021
  6:18 p.m.
  Riviera Beach
  Florida USA...

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Her Essence
 

It is purely my indecisiveness to blame

This heart she cherished miserably lost

Doubt treated love like a fleeting game

Remnants of her essence a pallid ghost



 Composed:
 02/25/2021
 4:21 p.m.
 Riviera Beach
 Florida  USA...

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A shadow hides behind your smile
in the Riviera sun
Parisian moments long ago
our love had just begun

A child born then lost to time
whose laughter still we hear
As life took back its greatest gift
—his memory to endear

(Mayenne France: April, 1978)...

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Winter’s chill pierces my frail heart
My shallow breath could cease,
Ere spring arrives, I may depart
For the sunny islands of Greece.

Beautiful Kythira
Cenozoic era
Lovely riviera

I dream of the Aegean Sea,
Winter’s chill so depresses me. 

[Quietus]

written February 4, 2022...

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Sun-kissed City,
named the American Riviera,
a princess wearing a cape of mediterranean climate,
a pacific pearl,
now 
a hostage
to the mountain's plunder,
the backdrop of fire ravaged hills,
where the prayers of the locals
hold the debris flow intact
until 
the next rain
could again
lead a death artillery of boulder
down into it's path....

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One second you're floating on air
  Turn around, your cupboard's bare

In April you're up on Cloud Nine
   Come May, the stars don't align

In June you croon a sweet tune
   By July, life's a wreck and a ruin

Today you cruise the Riviera
   Tomorrow you broil in the Sahara

Life's tendency is to surprise
   More often than not destabilize...

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Music's Magic

                   Embedded within exist symmetrical pulsating rhythms

                   Attuned to voices in harmony chanting melodic hymns

                   Celebrating music as homage to cosmic consciousness

                   A passage through infinity imparting love and oneness 






2/17/2021
4:20 p.m.
Riviera Beach, Florida
USA...

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I brushed aside
My faraway glimpses,
The many consequences
Of trifle revelries I wasted
Grasping the snippets of night time
And all  abandoned pining.
Bouquets of fondled whispers dangled
Among damp stems along Riviera beach,
Still molding flit kisses in balmy shades
That stretched on coasts of sudden farewells.



Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place Contest...

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A classic beauty was his luxury Buick Riviera,
the name of which would never have stayed with me but for the fact
it became a carriage that transported me into magic. 

His kisses were smoother than the leather seats on which we embraced.
As I gazed into the eyes of the most beautiful face -
that night and even the name of his car -were seared into my brain....

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Cuter than a June bug was Blossom
Bubba's hound had a nose for possum
   Bush moved and they watched it shake
   Not a possum, dadgum snake
Bubba took aim, results were awesome

Tweren’t the end of Blossom’s era
Sucked out venom; used Aloe Vera
   Dinner was finger lickin’
   Snake tasted just like chicken
Felt like a Redneck Riviera


*Entry for John Freeman’s limerick contest...

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Heart Set Free


                                   Betrayal stirs his dormant shiver
 
                                   Regretful tears flowed out to sea

                                   Broken promises failed to deliver

                                   Silent goodbye set her heart free








  Penned: 02/26/2021
  1:22 p.m.
  Intown Suites
  Riviera Beach
  Florida USA...

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Imagine hills where 
landscapes slide into 
heavens
Dews and hues 
romancing its ranches
A decor of devil's bow in 
soft tone
A cascade of bays 
blending
A steaming geothermal 
spa amid black lava fields
Thawing snow tumbling
Glitzy huts emerging from 
riviera
Echoes of villagers 
sparkling the harmony of 
the wind
Howdy tourists emerging 
from the blues
Obudu cattle ranch a 
milieu of fantasy

awoh awoh...

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Riviera Night (my own title)

Your kisses were smoother than

the leather of the seat

on which we sat embracing.

I pray our last night

lingers in your memory too.


Written Oct. 15, 2017
 for nette onclaud's "The Minimalist Form" Poetry Contest
Five lines of five words per line.
*Riviera is a luxury model of Buick that stopped being made around 1999.
Dedicated to Quebec-born Guy Loranger, wherever he may be....

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Afterglow of purple passion beneath silk sheets.
Cordial cherry crimson of their cheeks taste sweet.
Blue veins like the Parisian Riviera - a lover’s retreat.
Bodies, turned left and right with twining finger pleats,

Sizzling after fronts combine, nescient of Winter’s sleet.
Her flaming strands askew on his chest. Pounding beat.
His loins stir once more. Full lips, like the dawn, he greets.
Her eyes like the morning sky, no longer shy, repeats....

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Alabaster staircase framing chandeliers
    Picassos, Renoirs, Van Goghs lining the walls
  Marble floors, dazzling in the starlight
    Polished perfection staging the Night

  Dainties, delicacies, tray after tray
    Sweetmeats, exotic fruits, more on the way
  Debonair men in their tuxes emerge from limousines
    Women goddesses wear sequined gowns, leggy queens

  Playboys, playgirls of the Riviera making the scene
    Jealousy left wondering what it all means...

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