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Read More© 2025My Favorite French PoemC'est la vie,C'est la guerre,C'est les pommes de terre.
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I know those words! Only French I actually know. And I’ve used that phrase myself a time or two
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Really? I wrote this more than 50 years ago when I was a young, horny USAF airman stationed in Germany, to impress a young French girl on our first date. She giggled, but it was our last date. How could you have possibly known that phrase? I never wrote it down anywhere until I posted it here! Where did you learn it?
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My best friend growing up had a grandmother who was rather eccentric. She would make us ride in the backseat of her battleship olive green and wood paneled station wagon and randomly say things. We always paid attention because they were usually worth hearing. She said it one day on her way to drop us off at the state fair. It stuck in my head all these years. 😊
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Amazing! Perhaps we are related in some bizarro way! Ah, C’est la vie qui nous apprend et non l’école
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Read More© 2025I Saw a Lady Cry TodayBy FlatDaddyI saw a lady cry todayand tried to offer aid,But there was nothing I could sayto comfort this poor maid.The woman shook from toe to head,and cold can make one cry,But she...
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Wow, this is someone you met, or were you inspired by someone to write this? She seemed so heart broken
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Thanks for the input, Fia. My inspiration was the death knell sounded by Pete Hegseth and his crowd. And the Lady must be terribly heartbroken to swim all the way back to France.
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You captured that emotion well
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Thanks, Fia. I truly think the sharp rise in violence toward women and children can be traced to the current administration’s policies and racist bent. It’s deplorable.
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Utterly disgusting, this government and its hatred…
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Absolutely, and it’s getting so much worse now. I suppose Hegseth will see my Lady swimming back to France and have her bombed, too. I suppose we should erect a big hand where she once stood, with the finger directed right toward DC. Now, THAT would be appropriately Liberating!
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Absolutely, and it’s getting so much worse now. I suppose Hegseth will see my Lady swimming back to France and have her bombed, too. I suppose we should erect a big hand where she once stood, with the finger directed right toward DC. Now, THAT would be appropriately Liberating!
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Wow, it posted twice! Not meant to, but acceptable.
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Powerful work.
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Thank you, Thomas.
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Read Moreoutstaring a blank wall You stand before a wall.It waits, blank as withheld breath.What hovers over you?Drafts unpinned,stories unspoken,videos sealed,pages chasing horizonsthat never arrive.Perfection whispers—a mask for delay.What if you placedone imperfect mark?What if you let motioncarve its shape?The...
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Read More© 2025 I am home now, alone in my “office.” I use quotes around it, because we know it isn’t really an office. It is the mudroom. I have a table with a fairly new plywood top. There is...
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Read More© 2025The King was too caught up in the recounting of his tale to notice us and continued as he paced, “The water that poured into the pond actually sparkled, even in the dimness of the cave where the only...
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Hi, Usha. Thanks for reading it, and I would love to help you; but part of the plot for this story is to use your computer or phone to search the web for a French to English translator and use it to tell you the words in English. The translator aps are free to use, mostly. Or you could go back to school and study the French language like I did, and now I know enough French to write a French poem, and this is the only time and place in my life that my education has paid off. Huzzah! Well, now you’ve got the tool to get the words — but that won’t tell you the meaning. That’s for you to figure out. Not even a fancy education like mine will give you that. You will need to think hard about what the words mean. They say different things to different people, Usha. Perhaps the original meaning is known only by the author.