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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

0 posted 2011-12-03 07:39 PM

these thoughts are from an evening in one of my favourite Paris restaurants...

Observation 1:
I return to a restaurant
that I love in the 3eme
Chez Omar

The ambience is still the same
and Mourad my waiter greets me
with smiles and bisous

The buzz is still the same
the noise
the chatter
the laughter
the conversations

I take couscous and legumes
but already I am full
on the ambience and the noise
of this delightful restaurant

The bartender is the same
still stoic
still strong
unsmiling
but you know he is watching you
from the safety of his bar!

Observation 2:
The people are happy to be here
they are vibrant and hungry for couscous
If you close your eyes
you could be anywhere I know
mais non
You are here with me in Paris
on a beautiful evening
when the lights are sparkling
and the Paris night gods are calm

Observation 3:
Oh he smiled
in my direction
the bartender
behind the bar!
Maybe not a full smile
perhaps it was a raised eyebrow
but it was definitely in my direction
and so I smiled back
just in case he noticed

Observation 4:
One, two, three,
one,
one two
one
one, two, three
the patrons keep coming
in the door!
Maroud greets them all
and wishes them
Bon Apetite
as their food is served

Observation 5:
People are queuing
out the door
same as always
same as always
they are patient
and know they will be
seated eventually
without fuss
without fuss

Observation 6:
My words keep coming
as I keep topping up my glass
from my Pichet of wine
As usual I write my thoughts
and bother not if they are right
just words
one letter after the other
that form a sentence that
may or may not make sense!
ahhh tom pee...

Observation 7:
The girls next to me
speak English
but in a very British way
They are young
and talk of boyfriends
student life
and eating in non expensive
restaurants such as this
They leave
but I continue to sit
and sip and write my thoughts

Observation 8:
One waiter
I don't particularly like
he appears unkind
and in a hurry and
always looking in my direction
as if to say
you have finished your dinner
now finish your wine and leave
mais non... I will stay
and linger on and write
until my thoughts are no longer

Roniece.com 2011

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-12-03 08:01 PM

This is completely out of my league, Roniece, although I did enjoy reading of your evening out at your favorite Paris restaurant. I have, of course had dinner in a Paris restaurant, but it was Paris, Texas, not Paris, Paris.

I enjoyed your musing and the comings and goings and the unsmiling bartender and, of course, the vino. The waiter you didn't like most likely didn't like you either because you were maybe taking a table which he could be waiting on, thereby making more tips, but of course you understood that perfectly as well.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2011-12-03 08:39 PM

another grand-fine Impression of what is obviously a lovely time and place !

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2011-12-05 06:04 PM

Wonderful...sometimes people that know me ask me when I write in public places, which is more like scribbling, if I am writing more poetry...I tell them I am writing my thoughts, thoughts which sometimes are observations...James

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

4 posted 2011-12-05 09:20 PM

thank you everyone...appreciate your lovely comments as always xx

James.. I think our thoughts overtake us sometimes... and demand that we write them! Always appreciate your thoughts.. xx

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2011-12-10 01:08 PM

Thank you for the lovely postcard from Paris, Roniece.
Ida

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

6 posted 2011-12-10 11:27 PM

Thank you lovely Ida!! A pleasure to have you read my work..

Bisous
RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2011-12-11 10:44 AM

hello roniece , this is a very enjoyable write and full of perspicacity, warm atmosphere and loving one, I love the last stanza that recalls us that the world (and paris too) is not perfect, thanks for sharing

yann

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

8 posted 2011-12-28 02:38 AM

Thank you for taking me with you, darlin'. My senses are sated.

xoxoxo
A

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