A Downtown Paris cafe

A scene from Paris

A haze languorous

oft in summer days
Where sundrops drip
From melting skies
Onto city grind
And parasols shade the cobbled grays

Across back alley lanes
Trains and trolleys tip toe by
As a fool in love forever waits
Among a noon bistro Paris crowd
For his girl, who is always fashionably late

Outside a walk somewhere a café cityscape

Young beauties amidst a mid-day stroll
Becomingly, become ever respectively
The flowers that line the picket way
Or some frilly prize ponies
Beneath carousels about avenues of Torrid place

A testament to this…
The carriag'd horses which turn their whiny heads
And then, when I turn mine
It’s to witness boots of cavalier instead
That step to one side
For moments languor has left
As my own prize has made red carpets roll out again

Those flutter lashes like shotguns glints
And soon the white dove makes its notorious descent
Where the gentlemen, unbeknownst to them, become like-minded ruffians
As they dive into madness for her precious handkerchief

“Oh” this women of mine, she has her perculiar ways
Just like all the silly rest
My damsel mademoiselle never enters into throes of distress
Longer lace invites mischievous about a button down dress
And her kisses offer smiles and arduent waves
With utter love contempt to them, but my hand is her biggest praise, as yet

I guess it’s the thrill of the game
And she’s the tigress and I her willful prey
Opening up the Gazette, coffee I incredulous sip and purposely hide my face
As my sweet flora strolls my way
And lands into her lover's arms
In a somewhere downtown Paris café

Reviews

[KT-B]

very romantic read, you paint a lovely picture with this one - love it :)

[Michael G. Smith]

Thank you Kt.

[Corset]

This poem is completely gorgeous! loved all of it :P

[Michael G. Smith]

Thank you for taking your time to read it.

[Tomás Ó C..]

Beautiful imagery of Paris and lovers

[Michael G. Smith]

Thanks Tomas for you comments.

[DarkTruth]

I love it! Awesome word usage!!!

[Michael G. Smith]

Thank you, this is a series of challenges to myself to place myself in another perspective and write a situation. My first challenge was titled "confessions of a soldier ".

[A. Amos]

Reading a great work after long time...as was busy writing my Novel:)
Merry Xmas to you and family...peace!

[Michael G. Smith]

Merry Christmas

[Rashi Jain]

This poem is so charming and impressive.Just loved it!

[Michael G. Smith]

Thank you for taking the time to stop by.

[s y e]

Paris is so utterly romantic. I want to go to Paris, maybe with the one I love? I dunno, aha. This is beautiful, Mikey.

[Michael G. Smith]

I am planning to take my Milagros to Europe for our twentieth anniversary. She had lived in Sweden several years before we met. I have been as close as the shores of England; the English channel were you could see France across on a clear day. Thank you for your reviews

[s y e]

That would be a lovely idea. 20th anniversary? Congratulations, dude.

[Michael G. Smith]

Yeah, second marriage going on 16 years. I was married 9 to my children's mother.

[Michael G. Smith]

I started young had my first two by the time I was twenty one. Now I have two amazing grandchildren.

[s y e]

Awh, that's so sweet Mikey.

[Sami Khalil]

This feels like Rick Steve's trips to beautiful Paris , France where life is magical and the lights are ever shining . I love to visit and sit in the cafe's and climb the Eifel Tower . I like how you have mixed the beauty of the city with love and the summer in Paris theme... Well done and enjoyable...:)

[Michael G. Smith]

Thanks again Sami for taking time to read writings of an old fool. Lol

[Sami Khalil]

No problem. We are all in the same boat...You are welcome...:)