France
The coldness of your intellectualism
was never much of an attraction to me,
cold intelligence for its own sake
more often being cruel and unhuman
than agreeable and positive,
but your poetry is always in the air
with songs galore of wonderful melodic beauty
for which I'll forgive you anything,
you proud capricious France
of too much haughty superiority
based mainly on the vanity of artificialness.
Still, Edith Piaf, Chopin, Victor Hugo, Voltaire,
Jules Verne, Dumas and Baudelaire were all in France
contributing to her poetic spirit
which will last and rule more sovereignly
than all miserable fools just messing up
the troublesome and unsound history of France.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-09-14 at 19:17
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