The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
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Is dance a metaphor for sex?
You’d think so if you knew my ex
(at least the barflies all believe
she’s hoarding something up her sleeve).
But what makes people want to dance?
An aural frenzy? ...
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Categories:
strasbourg, dance,
Form: Couplet
the most beautiful girls
...The most beautiful girls,
Are those we imagine to love,
The ones we would like to invite to the restaurant
To drink champagne and grands crus,
The most beautiful girls, I know some,
Are the on...
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Categories:
strasbourg, beauty, girl, love,
Form: Free verse
Back To Her
...After the Sunday service, searching back to her
For a date. He will soon be walking back to her.
Bottle rockets popping over the Sacre Coeur.
She suddenly kissed him; he then leaning back to her...
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Categories:
strasbourg, children, conflict, french, retirement,
Form: Ghazal
Evenings On Strasbourg Piers
...Used to live in
Strasbourg:
9, Quai de Paris.
The piers in that
city
Were on canals.
Window flower boxes
On Alsatian cafes,
Choucroute garnie
entres
With onion tartes.
Venders sell hot...
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Categories:
strasbourg, beauty, food, nostalgia, romantic,
Form: Verse
Far Destined Winds
...Sonnets After
Midnight #1 (Far
Destined Winds)
Far destined winds, port a love song for me.
Send silent heart-thoughts of hope in the air,
To her left standing far across the sea--
Gazing from a to...
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Categories:
strasbourg, absence, kiss, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The Voice of Silent Majority
...Tell me why is it opinions
Differ Throughout all mankind?
Why is a general consensus
Never quite clearly defined?
Why do we need to put borders
To mark nationalities land?
If such a thing is ...
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Categories:
strasbourg, political
Form: I do not know?
The Siege of Strasbourg
...Prussia and the other states are moving like a juggernaut.
Each day, our forces are falling to the onslaught.
The German states and cities are united as one.
We have been no match for them since t...
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Categories:
strasbourg, history, war
Form: Rhyme