RALLENTANDA

Thursday, March 13, 2014

For The Weekend

Sijo

celebrating the northern Spring,they wear pink ties
they harmonise with sweet voice-an acapella rose pink bloom
bonny lads they certainly are-the splendid King Singers

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

poets united
mid week motif

he always knew
he was meant for something else

sometimes he missed the garden
viewing the bottom of the world
from fine wine in a gazebo

never quite got the hang
of riding camels
or the 4am call to prayer

his thirst for adventure
overrides all
an explorer of life

the giggles and Ooooos
from a southern surf
will sustain him in the
sand dunes of his new life

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

3 WW
poetry jam

they portrayed her like this
smug and indulgent
in fact
she was devout and kind
demonised by her enemies

"let them eat cake"
she did not say
to the starving peasants

qu'ils mangent de la brioche
(let them eat brioche)
she did say

brioche is egg based bread
highly nutritious
by french law to be kept at the same price
as the cheapest bread

the bakers were not making enough profit
so kept brioche in short supply
deliberately contributing to the famine

saying goodbye to her children
before her public execution

the crowd yelled for more
as her bloodied head rolled round in the dirt
to this day her name still mud
her name still wrongly synonymous
with cruelty and lack of compassion