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Bastille Day
“Terror” by unknown artist from India (Regarding the terrorist attack in Nice) birds surrender their song to madness of murder angels arrive on waves kneeling in heartbroken agonyFiled under: Jorio,...
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Cherry Pie Afternoons
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat punting the Seine languid sun painting green island picnics baguettes roughly burrowed with brie dewy succulent grapes pinot...
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Louvre
The Louvre, Richelieu Wing – Photo by tripadvisor tribal rubble foundational fortress converted to princely chateau then through elegant sprawl became classical renaissance palace where kings in their...
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The Somme
“Trenches” by Otto Dix (Originally posted here February 2014) coarse soliloquies silently scraped at those thoughts still alive in the trenches regimental regalia lay muted by phosgene and field guns...
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Bohemian Scents
“Booksellers Along the Seine” by Edouard Leon Cortes (The opening lines appeared in my earlier poem “Nosegays.” But they stuck in my mind and so I give them a fuller story here.)...
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Eiffel Tower
Painting by Karen Tarlton iron wrought from rebellion a pylon to gracefully pierce the blue skin of the sky an inaugural century carried by elegant lattice and truss to the heights of new history...
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Le Pigalle
“An Evening at Moulin Rouge” by EMONA Art I may be alone red faux windmill fame does nothing for me does not titillate thrill or excite me except to arouse my sorrow and shame seedy surfaces...
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Papá
Papa c. 1938 there once lived a man a truly good man the only man ever in the history of popes of prelates and pilgrims to walk with stout legs of a horseman healthy and hale fearless with faith upon...
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Sarabande
“Waltz at the Bal Mabille” by brass tangents strike notes blithe of lilt within hinged hardwood cabinet breasts courtly clavichords call upon Goldberg from Bach turn to Handel for suite in duet of...
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Joie de Mort
French Tricolor Under Duress (Regarding the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack) monsters dance in the shadows the city of light dimmed by grief joy of terror disease of an indigent mind rots the heart...
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