One Single Impression: Joie de vivre [Joy of living]
happy little joey skipped and sang
freely waltzing down the street
sing the tune your father wrote
sing of the apples in the trees
sing of the pickers in the grove
joey's glad it isn't him who climbs
climbs the ladders to the trees
climbs the ladder of success and
escape. escape from the orchards where
both his father and the pickers are enslaved
joey danced on down his way
success is his to keep
though his father wants success and escape
success he has escape he wants
joey has both success and escape
joey is free from apples and the trees
Joie de vivre [Joy of living]
thanks to his father's succes
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Prompt words, Joie de vivre, suggested by Leo at I Rhyme Without Reason
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The sign by the roadside orchard says, "piquer c'est voler," meaning 'bite is stealing.' The red 'dot' in the picture has an apple inside an international circle with a diagonal 'no' line. This all is to say, 'do not eat apples from the trees, it is stealing.'
Picture was taken on Île d'Orléans, QC, Canada (link with map), just north of Quebec City, on the St. Lawrence River.
Labels: Free Verse Form, One Single Impression, One-Single-Impression, Poem, Signs
posted by Jim @ 9/18/2010 12:03:00 PM
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