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Alain Poems - Poems about Alain

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Premium Member Anna and the French Kiss
...Anna's boyfriend comes from France Stars in her eyes from French romance. Now our boyfriends are all homegrown We want a French kiss the seeds are sown. Alain is compliant and does......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, funny, school, silly,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Live At Umbria Jazz
...LIVE AT UMBRIA JAZZ Fahir Atakoglu, Alain Caron Horacio “El *****” Hernandez Live at Umbria Jazz, music so muscular, driving and relentless that it feels like the thunderstorms inside of my he......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, art, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Guy In Aisle Nine
...“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.” — Alain de Botton convinced me to roll curlers let them hang loose roam the villag......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, humor, youth,
Form: Light Verse


Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Alain Villain, the Suit
...I can hear my suit breathing in the night hanging on the closet door it likes to be called Alain Villain and while I eat salad from the bowl it devours umbrellas in a bathtub and gets stronger e......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ballade: In Favour of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem
...Ballade : In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade en faveur des dénommés Décadents et Symbolistes for Léon Vanier* (The texts I use for my t......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, poetry,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Souvenirs De Prison, March 1874
...Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Souvenirs de prison, March 1874* (Verlaine was sentenced to serve a term of two years in prison for having shot his erstwhile lover in the arm......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, angst,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Pucelle
...The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La Pucelle To Robert Caze* Even as the blaze crackled around the stake’s pyre, Joan was deafened by the clergy’s brutal chanting, Har......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir
...The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir To J.-K. Huysmans (Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary r......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, poverty, stress,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part One
...Part One “Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible fo......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
The Legend of Celine, the White Lady
...THE LEGEND OF CELINE, THE WHITE LADY In French Canada no legend is more tragic than that of Celine, A beautiful Quebec maiden who, long ago, fell in love with Alain. He came galloping ......Read the rest...
Categories: alain, loss, love, mysterywedding, city,
Form: Quatrain

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