Vive la difference
Vive la différence
couples complement each other
balancing the scales
one will play the jokester
clown and storyteller
the other acts as sidekick
filling in if there are gaps
they juggle and finesse their roles
managing an equilibrium
thus the introvert and extrovert
weave their life in harmony
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
vive, appreciation, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse
Vive La Difference
After all these years
I'm the same as I ever was
still a child at heart
(plus some older parts)
I've not changed because
what was important to me then
is also true today
nothing and no one
will ever sway my way
yet unlike so many
who know not their station
and only identify themselves
by their occupation
I'm aware of who I am
it determines what I
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Categories:
vive, child, heart, how i
Form: Rhyme
Vive la difference'
All the best to France, may her people stay strong
Egalat'e and joi.' I wish you all the best
From here out and on.'
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Categories:
vive, appreciation, assonance, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Vive la France
In France, a woman’s right to choose
Is guaranteed by law,
A freedom one will never lose
And no one can withdraw.
The message rings out loud and clear:
Our bodies are our own.
No courts or judge can interfere;
The choice is ours alone.
The Constitution plainly states,
Unlike the U.S.A.’s,
That there will be no more debates
Or government delays.
Unfortunately, here at home,
We
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Categories:
vive, freedom, women,
Form: Rhyme
Vive La France
I join in spirit; the public of France.'
Who young and older in romance
Entwined desire, with freedoms fire'
In peaceful protest; contrast the ire '
Of devious governments desires'
They do not reckon, or balance out
For sustainable living people shout.'
Take them from the billions spent
Squeezed in utiltys and soaring rent
It' was spent on war, the mood is sore!
Ecological damage,
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Categories:
vive, animal, conflict, environment, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Vive Le Roi
Flights of angels surely led her to her rest
Of all our monarchs, she has proved the best
Her example ,there for all to see and her heir to follow
As we reflect upon her reign in this sad time of sorrow
Right to the end publicly she fought to do her duty
In private her witty
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Categories:
vive, joy, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Vive
Too hard to like
Too easy to love
Once she touches you
No turning back
Too hard to believe
Too easy to deceive
Once she kisses you
No turning back
Too hard to forget
Too easy to remember
Once she loves you
No turning back
Too hard to understand
Too easy to forgive
Once she hurts you
No turning back
Too hard to
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Categories:
vive, love,
Form: Free verse
Canver-Vive
CANCER-VIVE
Trapped inside a living cell
Multiplying thoughts in mine’s a hell
This body is where my soul lives
Dread and illness is all it now gives
Swirling mind, makes out unreal
Hard to grasp it’s all surreal
Petrified at this diagnosis
Uncertain, of course, my future prognosis
God help me I’m scared you know
Images go flashing: a destructive torpido
All looks low, lonely and
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Categories:
vive, angel, cancer, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Whitaker Did With Vive and Verb
Whitaker Did with Vive and Verb
Whitaker did do with vibe and vivid verb,
Everyone would both bother and disturb;
His idiotic behavior should begin to curb.
Jim Horn
Toss in a couple of lines for me.
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Categories:
vive, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Vive Sem Horas
Vive sem horas
Na vida e nos negócios
Sempre,
esqueça o momento.
Não conte o tempo,
Quanto mede pesa,
E quanto pensas mede
e nada é medida certa.
Na vida e nos negócios
Não tenhas nada nas mãos
Nem uma memória na alma,
Que as horas não voltam!
Construa no espaço
Que figura futuro,
E prometa o Amanhã
Cumpre hoje,
não esperando
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Categories:
vive, business,
Form: Free verse
Vive La Difference
They keep me awake all night
So I sleep all day
Then they blame me
And take my life away
That is how my life is
In this awful game
So rejected am I
A life of constant pain
I say please reverse this
Let them feel the same
Let them know what it’s like
To live Eternal shame.
The reasons they reject me for
I conquer
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Categories:
vive, abuse, betrayal, evil, hate,
Form: I do not know?
Carlo Vive I Morti Siete Voi - Carlo Lives, You Are the Dead Ones
on merciless concrete
there's a body
don't clean up this blood
shot in the face
and run over as an inssurance
he'll never again put the blue ski mask on
don't clean up this blood
camouflaging a direct shot as ricocheted
did it even came to mind
was he still alive
when those tires
crossed over
don't clean up this blood
he was someone's son
do
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Categories:
vive, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Vive La Liberte
False winter—deceitful—fuels the unrest.
Paris preyed upon; men’s anger coalesced;
guns frame the debate.
Pride and despair fan the unholy flame.
The dispossessed grab weapons and take aim,
do words or actions desecrate?
Twelve dead in Paris—and a free press denied,
mourn for the loss, when faith and guns collide.
To men with no life, there’s only death.
Fathers
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Categories:
vive, violence, visionary, war,
Form: Free verse
Vive La France - Visual 4
Vive La France - visual #4
Weeping
half staff – full heart
stiffened - resilient
proudly applauding freedoms voice
she speaks.
1/14/2015
For Andrea Dietrich – An American Beauty Poetry contest
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Categories:
vive, freedom, paris,
Form: Cinquain
Vive Le Canada Libre
translation below
Vive le CANADA Libre
Toujours merveilleux
Toujours grand
Toujours libre
Terre de libertés
PKP, PKP, jamais ne volé mon pays
PKP, PKP, jamais ne volé mon pays
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PKP est le surnom d'un fameux séparatiste qui veut se présenter à la direction du parti québécois. Même s'ils se proclament séparatistes, ce sont en réalité tous des
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Categories:
vive, funny, inspiration, patriotic, political,
Form: I do not know?
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