This is very different from what I usually write, but change can be good. I've been reading the great French modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire and was inspired (since I'm not nearly proficient enough in French to write an entire poem in that language) to try my hand at a macaronic -- a type of poem that mixes words from different languages. I hope you enjoy it.
TEXT:
LE VENT ET LE SOLEIL You'll ever be mon amour mon amour What you were on the beach ce jour When you tossed all your clothes away To greet le vent et le soleil
To see ton corps si beau et nu Made me drunk with love of you We two made love without a care And no one watching sauf la mer
Nous nous voyons, my love, no more You stand upon another shore Yet of this truth you may be sure I keep you safe parmi mon coeur













