Short Vivant Poems

Still life staged tableau
                                  a living picture show...

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bon vivant Gaston
precocious carefree Gigi. . .
courtesan or wife







Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...

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Le monde à l'envers,
Où tout le monde peut voir,
Que le ciel est ici, vivant,
Dans la ville de mes rêves.


The world upside down,
Where everyone can see,
That heaven is here, alive,
In the city of my dreams....

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Benny was a high living’ bon vivant
Who ran around with his crazy old aunt
They traveled many countries afar
Playing Spanish flamenco guitar
Until she married a man named Ben Brandt

written September 30, 2021...

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Étoile,

Mon coeur ardent,

Ne meurent pas,

Pas maintenant...

 

Je suis vivant!

Je suis entier!


Ne casse pas...

Ma seule lumière.


Mon amour;

Qui a...

Pour la première fois,

Déchiré,

En pièces froides....

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A
pageant
unveiling
before our eyes,
the
yearly
calendar
revolves month by
month,
as
winter
welcomes spring,
summer beckons
fall-
we
tick off
a birthday,
closer to the 
grave.

Inspired by Christina Rossetti's The Months/A Pageant...

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Time unleashed from ferrum 
becomes pain
like a palm moon.

A tableau vivant was gliding 
on the road.
It was a night of rage.

A frozen scene
undulates the history of fire
in the eyes of a flute.

Who was breaking
the clouds
wading in reeds ?



Satish Verma...

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Just “Gimmie” a Casserole
By: Tom
12-2-2019

I could never be thought of as bon vivant guy,
I prefer plain “vittles” that will stick to a rib.
Most fancy dishes I allow to pass my plate by,
and I never eat things that require a bib.
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Un oiseau a volé

 

Je rêve
La fleur rêve
Rêves qui tombent du ciel
Amer est le miel
 
Toutes les fleurs se sont noyées sous la pluie
Moi, je ne sais pas qui je suis
Sauf que j’ai été perdu toute ma vie
Mort ou vivant

Tous les rêves ont disparu
 
Même toi...

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Solitude
loves
parties
balls
bars
but
alone...

beauty
there is
on here
there
is at
any
place
just look with eyes to perceive
and feel...

winds
blow
smells
poets
sprinkle
dreams; ...

crowd
is where solitary people
most
feel
solitude

the splendid side of living,
it's always bon vivant

paradise
there is
where
there is
on here
 and there...

present
it's life
future
is
march...

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GUITAR GIRL
the music of the dance,
love in her glance-
to her true love,perchance?
JUG GIRL
a maid,unafraid
innocence..
displayed
LUTE GIRL
her tune,picked by ear
brings forth a tear-
yet draws us near
BALANCE GIRL
a delicate touch
frozen in time-
a story in mime
SINGING GIRL
the singers or her song
forever to us belong-
picture music vivant
THINKING GIRL
think on,think long
thought,her everyday song...

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Vermeer sketches...he   ...remembers moments of interplay vivant intimate intricate details begin  the beguine & joys outflow  perfection aglow enigmatic close-ups in looks of love into  eternity's eyes such innocence displayed in delicate faces to   tantalise lost in thought portraits in time yesterdays
preserved  in paint a museum of memories in enigmas unsolved looks to read conjecture  preserves the sereness between muses and our eyes
& a mirror sublime...

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he was 
a bon vivant
not denying himself
any luxuries in life
did not believe
in abstinence

live to the fullest
was his motto
appreciate
the gifts of life
we will never
pass this way again

when he died
a starving artist
his pockets
were empty
but his heart
overflowed
not one regret              



AP: 3rd place 2021

Submitted on May 26, 2020 for contest BRIAN'S CHOICE W sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on June 29, 2019...

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GUITAR GIRL
the music of the dance,
love in her glance-
to her true love,perchance?
JUG GIRL
a maid,unafraid
innocence..
displayed
LUTE GIRL
her tune,picked by ear
brings forth a tear-
yet draws us near
BALANCE GIRL
a delicate touch
frozen in time-
a story in mime
SINGING GIRL
the singers or her song
forever to us belong-
picture music vivant
THINKING GIRL
think on,think long
thought,her everyday song

see related cartoons on my blog 
vermeersgirls@blogspot.com...

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