Paris in you

There’s a Paris in you,

bones of a city, finely bred.

Laid by fevered souls.

There's Rodin in your jaw,

Your limbs, sleek Hausmann lines

Like Paris, you ache to be seen,

felt, smelt and sipped

like dusk along the Seine.

Conjuring such emotion,

poetry loosening at your seams,

oozing from polished stone.

And the deeper I go

beneath the art and intellect

the more I marvel

at the aching human beneath-

smudged softly in parts

yet so warm and heady to touch.

There's a Paris in you,

the Louvre impossible to know 

in a single lifetime.

And that's why I rejoice

to find myself once more

in the Paris in you.

Author's Note

Notes to a lover.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

So beautiful, so wonderful dear Divya. Your words danced like magic. I need a year in Paris. I would write a great novel. Thank you dear friend for sharing the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[DIVYA]

Dear Coyote,
Thank you so much for such beautiful appreciation! You will so such wonders in Paris. It needs poets who love humanity. Paris will embrace you! ❤️

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Divya. I visit Paris many times from 1976-1980. i was stationed in Germany. I agree dear friend. We need more kind leaders, we need more kind people. Our world is suffering. You are welcome.