La Ferme
...It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
touristy, 4th grade, easter, family,
Form: Free verse
Friday Night Lites
...It’s Friday night and a group of us, the ‘university summer fellows’ (Quinn, Jammie, Monique, Lisa and I) are going groovin’. Quinn, a Harvard man (we’ve shed our jaundiced opinions of him), assured ...
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Categories:
touristy, dance, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Southern Sunshine Hospitality
...There was a panther roar
On an icy Canadian floor
Off in the distance
Images filled with persistence
Somewhere south marlins swim and dolphins dance
Aquarium stage is where they get the cha...
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Categories:
touristy, america, holiday, sun, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Touristy Tanzania
...Dar es salaam where I live means heaven of peace
But to me she has proved as well to be a haven of peace.
A peaceful place for any peace-loving person or race.
Atleast selfishly from here seem far...
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Categories:
touristy, places,
Form: Free verse
The Earth and Sea
...Somewhere between the simple, slow and quiet
She found him, far away from the touristy crowd
Shirt untucked, canvas slung over his shoulder
His skin, warm and salty
Sweet leftovers from his affair wi...
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Categories:
touristy, love,
Form: Free verse
Sing a Song of Tajmahal
...Sing a song of Taj Mahal
A landmark of lovers
And a lover's edifice
With medieval bowers
Tis a mecca for tourists
Tis sensational, tis exceptional,
tis truly a touristy place
Watch the shin...
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Categories:
touristy, art,
Form: Rhyme
Reality
...Sometimes there is a need for reality
Like the wrinkles and roughness of an old down Mainer
Sure P town and The Vinyard are nice and touristy
But for reality and hang it in the wind
There's no p...
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Categories:
touristy, natureold, old,
Form: I do not know?
Kuhio Street At 5am
...I am sitting here on Kuhio Street
with the old Honolulu blues again.
The early day shift's coming on their beat
in the midst of the breezy, pre-dawn game,
where the last of the midnight street li...
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Categories:
touristy, allegory, introspection,
Form: Sonnet