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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2013-11-07 09:28 PM

Boulevard St. Germain

Your perfume
you said
comes from
Boulevard St. Germain
Paris
and I would be wise
to remember that

I sprinkle a bottle
of your favorite
every year at this time
on the grass
beneath the tree
under which you lay

and I try to say the words
the way you did
in French
and accented
just like you

Je t'aime
mon coeur
je t'aime

de moi

but I always fail
so say it
the only way
I know

I love you
my heart
I love you

from me.

© wesley james beard, jr.
november 7, 2013

Note:I hope that the above worked and the translation is correct . . . ?

paderewski
Member

since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

1 posted 2013-11-08 08:45 AM

It works for me, Jimmy.

~*~ Who remembers Pete Best? He was the drummer before Ringo Starr ~*~

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

2 posted 2013-11-08 01:16 PM

very beautiful tinged with a bit of sadness

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

3 posted 2013-11-09 11:03 AM

Touchingly sad poem, James. It's priceless, the memories of voice and fragrance you have to hold on to though. I would tell you to cherish them, but it's obvious you already do. Thank you for sharing them.

Michael

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2013-11-09 07:26 PM

Beautiful, Jimmy.
Ida

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2013-11-10 11:37 PM

Nothing personal in this piece, my friends; I was researching where to take my wife for our 40th anniversary, December 23, 2014, and was looking at Paris, when the name 34 Boulevard St. Germain (a perfume retailer/maker on Boulevard St. Germain, Paris, France), caught my writer's eye and in a few minutes this piece was finished.

Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and for just being there, just as you are, for the benefit of all.

j.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2013-11-11 04:04 PM

hi jewsley, it is so nice, and so french, i hope you will travel in Paris,

yann

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2013-11-12 09:04 PM

wonderful...marvelous...James

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