Nature French Poems

Charles Dickens said it best,
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,”
a tale born in paroxysm and flame,
where streets cried for...

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From the window trough
lets feast on pea shoots and chives
marvel at the paper whites
tall and slender
with magnificent perfume
and grow nepeta for our cat ?
Why don't...

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These are translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific...

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I have a music that I want to sing but something keeps interfering with the rhythm, I have been trying desperately to compose the line
But...

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The Hurricane and Florida


The green valley near the blue lake 
It sounds like a color combination by a happy incident
it was the weather of the day...

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then you rushed into the leafy courtyard late
like you’d just been thrown in by some hand
but we hadn’t actually arranged it yet 
I knew immediately...

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Come and paint me naked and bare  

and meddle with the joy and sorrow that I bear,  

come and paint my dignity 

...

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This is my modern English translation of a French poem by Voltaire, one of my all-time favorite writers. The poem is followed by two translations...

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Claude.
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Le Jardin De Ma Mere.


      A frayed straw hat protecting silvery grey,
      my mother got...

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PUNICA GRANATUM

Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate
No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade"
No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and...

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I went for a morning stroll
I had a decision to make
A road to choose
I knew where I was heading
French bread and rosin bun
I took the...

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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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LOS SONIDOS DE LOS DRUMS DEL RÍO-verso francés Parte 3
THE SOUNDS OF THE RIVER DRUMS-FRENCH VERSE  PART 3


SONIDOS DE LOS TAMBORES DEL RÍO
COMO EL...

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Public urinals conceived

Paris residents peeved...

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