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Also taking the French route with a favorite poem I recited for memory at a high school language competition back in the 80s. I won 1st place. 😃
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#poetrymatters
#tout
@TheSpineView
Also taking the French route with a favorite poem I recited for memory at a high school language competition back in the 80s. I won 1st place. 😃
Today is French poet Jacques Prévert's birthday. He would have been 122. I wondered which of his poems were available online in English, and found some on poetryverse.com. I learnt his poems at school - they are deceptively simple!
The poem above - Les feuilles mortes - is actually a song.
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