Bonsoir madame la Lune Bonsoir madame la Lune Que faites-vous donc là ? J'fais mûrir des prunes Pour tous ces enfants-là. Bonjour monsieur le Soleil Que...
The seamans love letter from Plymouth to his mistress in Wapping [From MS, late 17th century] Dear Madam My long consideration of ye great reputation You have...
The Foolish Dictionary by Gideon Wurdz @ http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/humor/TheFoolishDictionary/ chap2.html A ABSINTHE From two Latin...
VILLANELLE--(To M. Joseph Boulmier, author of "Les Villanelles.") Villanelle, why art thou mute? Hath the singer ceased to sing? Hath the Master lost his lute?...
Limerick Oulipien :-) ... well with the rule of "only eye rhymes" (rule from Harry Mathews - Oulipien) An eye catcher A girl had to put on many an oz to...
Themes I - Espagne ou forme espagnole ... et/ou II - Un texte decrivant un objet - Style Ponge, Guillevic ... ou le votre ... Amities, Rolland Poesie@...
Le sonnet de Roland - Version 1968. (ou faut mettre les points sur les i) Il était un Roland, neveu de Charlemagne, requin comme Ulysse ou son frère...
November by Thomas Hood No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No...
I went to poetry reading last night in limerick, The poet was Knute Skinner - American living in County Clare Ireland for the last 40 years. I really enjoyed...
12 Variations on Waters Douze variations sur les eaux 3 1 Did 2 canoes to paddles sunned to rapids prance Stallionesque? 2 Deux canots rouges ont-ils...
Themes pour la semaine: Theme no I : Amourette (qui passait par la ... peut etre) et/ou Theme no II sur le style - Images et metaphores - retour au symbolisme...
from Percy B. Shelley's HELLAS (a lyrical drama) "We strew these opiate flowers On thy restless pillow,-- They were stripped from Orient bowers, By the Indian...
If you delete this ... you seriously don't have a heart. This story is 100% true, Forward in Aug. Please one people forward 10 e-mail the world and send one...
If you delete this ... you seriously don't have a heart. This story is 100% true, Forward in Aug. Please one people forward 10 e-mail the world and send one...
Thanks for Shelley...here another one: TIME Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of...
A BUNCH OF CLERIHEWS The Emperor Arcadius Lived outside the four-mile radius, Which made it rather laborious To visit the Emperor Honorius. Geoffrey Chaucer ...
Elle a dit: "Non!" - et j'en mourrai. O Lune, épands tes larmes blanches! Je vais sous l'if aux mornes branches Trouver le repos désiré. Vous prendrez un...
LOVE LIES BLEEDING YOU call it, "Love lies bleeding,"--so you may, Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops, As we have seen it here from day to day, ...
Sorry - I completely forgot to mention put the author of the first poem underneath to make it clear - of course it was Wordsworth - William !! The Daffodil...
Whilst perusing my old books I bought earlier this year in Paris and Bruxelles I found an old note with a poem on it, the poem was typed with a mechanical type...
... Cen'est pas qu'il y ait des fautes, mais c'est un des pires "poèmes" que j'aie jamais lus ;-) En particulier, "J'entends passer le cri des pilotes en...
mdrrrrrrrrrrrrr...alors I dedicate this poem to you then!! nice to read you again and to see you are still alive and kicking - you put a big smile in my face!...
We were told to turn up our speakers to maximum...mistake was, it was rather late at night - We were lucky though - our neighbours take out their hearing aids...
ILLITERATE- Shadab Vajdi I know a man who reads all inscriptions on ancien stones and who knows the grammar of all languages, dead or alive, but who cannot...
I got a book "Limericks Down Under" (Down under as most may know = Australia) by Alan Benjamin & Cyril Pearl. The Introduction begins like this: "No one seems...
TO THE SPIDER IN THE CREVICE/ BEHIND THE TOILET DOOR Janet Sutherland i have left four flies three are in the freezer next to the joint of beef the other is...
Christin de Pisan (1364 - 1431) One of the brightest figures of the Middle Ages, born in Venice lived much of her life in France, she was the first woman of...
Jean-Pierre de Beranger (1780-1857) He wrote many political songs and poems of social significance. Imprisoned under the Restoration, his work helped to spread...
