One Year in Paris: Collection of Poems

By Frederic Thiphaine

One Year in Paris is a collection of poems. Writings range from the mundane
To the realm of spirits, from the edge of anguish
To unbridled joy and exuberant hope
From audacious to irreverence
Always with disconcerting Honesty the words
Reveal a dangerously simple and personal philosophy.
The poems explore the moody nexus of love belief
The shadowy worlds of emotions
Where poems are paintings of perceptions.
From life to death to life to the sweetness
Of child's presence
The alert reader will glimpse the revealed soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493194995

Frederic Thiphaine

Frederic Thiphaine was born in Paris France, spent seventeen years in California Where he published his first and second books Of dust and Soul and Africa He now resides in France One Year in Paris is a collection of poems. Writings range from the mundane To the realm of spirits, from the edge of anguish to unbridle joy and exuberant hope From audacious to irreverence. Always with disconcerting honesty the words Reveal a dangerously simple and personal philosophy. The poems explore the moody nexus of love belief The shadowy worlds of emotions where poems are paintings of perceptions. From life to death to life to the sweetness of child's presence The alert reader will glimpse the revealed soul.

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Copyright © 2014 by Frederic Thiphaine.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014905928

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4931-9500-8

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

LETTERS

FROM BOHEMIA

The Day

The Map

Departure

Notion Of A Dream

Present Past Future

Cosmic Wheels

Back In Time

Day By Day

Cassandra’s Dream

New Words

First Time

The End Of The Search

Bohemia

Recording

Le Clochard

Caramel Skin

Into The Wild

Pride

New Horizons

Dream

Sleepless Ii

Numbers

Reptiles

For Some

Words

Otro Día

Across The Desert

Music Of The Heart

A Secret

Light

21 First Century Clone

Mundane

A War Somewhere

Termination

The Empire

Never Forget

Coming Wars And Predictability

Denial

Remember

The Conquest

Money

Forgotten

Canvas

The Great Game

Power

The Last Crusade

ONE YEAR IN PARIS

Once Upon A Time

El Tesoro

Soon

Today Is

Lingering

Reggae Music

My One

From Birth

Until Dawn

When I Grow Up

A Dream

Parisian Morning

Crash

Wheels

War

It Will

Three

Away

11.45 Pm

Fashion Show

Enigmatic Beauty

The New Dream

New Horizon Vi

Rebirth

I’m

The Greatest Discovery

Latitude

She Iii

A Teacher

Sobré

Provence

Mirages

Sleepless In Paris

The End

Thank You

RIDES

Subway Ride

Franklin Roosevelt’ Station

Pont Marie

Ecole Militaire

Saint Placide

Oberkampf

Assemblée National

Bourse

Notre-Dame Des Champs

Pyramid

Villejuif-Louis Arongon

Bastille

Victor Hugo

Porte Dorée

Château Rouge

Place D’italie

Bir-Hakeim

Concorde

Blanche

Père Lachaise

Temple

Trocadero

Jaures

République

Saint Lazare

Passy

Voltaire

La Chapelle

Pont De Neuilly

Botzaris

Chatelet

Liberté

Varenne

MICROCOSMIC

Morning Shoes

Temple

From To

Winter

Newborn

Lullaby

Corporation

A Café Scene

Time Zone

Simple Fact

Follow

On The Bridge

Return

Baby’s Breath

Gypsies

Modernity

Scars

Morning Stuff

Beneath The Stars

Alchemy

End Of The World

Autumn

Modern Age

Beyond Silence

Evidence

Planet To Planets 

Moods

Tupac

Hope

Crows 

A Crossword Of Time 

Nothing

Alkem

A Different Eye

My World Of Prey

Collapse And Refuelling

Now Is The Time

Like A Strange Feeling

October In Paris

Este

Morning Stroll

10.40Am

Baby Blues

Game Changer

From Heaven

With Love

Baby Cries

Rain Or Shine

Hey!

Blank Page

Happy Face

Follow Shadows

Karmic Wheels

Spring

El Tesoro

Myth

Polytics

Tricked

To Watch The World

My Ego

Revelations

Messy

Bother

A Simple Ride

Don’t

The Fabric

House By The Lake

In The End

Melting Pot

Liquids

Desert

Therapy

Something

Cannons

Stronger

New Rules

Three Kings

Summer

A Week

No Age

Poetry

For The Universe

Katia Pharo

Leo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

F irst of all I would like to thank the Universe

For the beautiful stream of inspiration and creativity Thank you Katia Pharo for being my puzzle in the dark

The deepest emotional mirror I got to look in

Thank you Paris for welcoming me, for taking me in again and with me share pieces of you

Thank you California for being on the map

Thank you very much Guilaume Gaudet for the wonderful Black and white picture so graciously offered

Again thank you

Thank you super mademoiselle Nacera Benfeda

For the artwork

A very special thank you for Laurie Zupan

For editing and much more thank you for being my friend

Thank you to all poets writers creators sharers of Emotions thank you to you all for being in the world

Thank you dear shrinks for showing me horizons beyond The dark, possibilities and multiple realities

Again thank you Katia Pharo for bringing a fantastic little Guy in this world thank Leo for being my son

Thank you to all the folks I have met all of you who Contributed to this book, thank you Mum and Dad

Thank you Life

LETTERS

FROM BOHEMIA

THE DAY

T he day started simply

Like a mysterious fairy-tale

Of a faraway constellation

The faces were gently

Melting on the pale

Landscape of coloration

Peculiar is the morning ride

From one planet to another

The perception of a bright light

Can strangely differ

The illuminations of Jupiter’s mind

Can often darken

Venus’s caresses of immanence

The delusion of Orion’s scribe

Can often darken

Saturn’s words of elegance

The day smiled timidly

To the infinities of possibilities

Blooming on the lips

Of a West African beauty

I can see a suave tender kiss

Flirting between her hips

The day started simply

Infamous morning news

Of a fast spreading war

Far, too far away

For me to sincerely care

Far, too far away

For me to sincerely care

The day started simply

Another ride to Petra

A beauty appears

A caress of freshness

On the skin of monstrous morning news

The day started ordinarily

Like a peaceful revolution

Of outcast childhood dreams

Skilfully battling

The strictness of the years

The clouds were smiling

In the skies of my happiness

The sunbirds chanting

To the heart of loveliness

The day started simply

Like the fantastic dawn of humanity

Witnessing the fall of mankind

The day started so simply

Like a trip to the end of line nine

THE MAP

J ’ai dessiné

La Carte d’un monde

A visiter

Les esquisses de navigateurs perdus

Simples adeptes du sans retour

J’ai griffonné un parchemin de circonstance

Badigeonné le murmure de l’espérance

Dans le voyage j’ai trouvé

Le sens de la singularité

De la belle existence

Somewhere the eternal sun

Awaits me

Somewhere the primal thought

Awaits me.

Il faut avoir parcouru

Les contrées escarpées

Des cœur brisés

Des pupilles ensommeillées

Pour pouvoir ressentir

L’appel du salut

J’ai dessiné

La Carte d’un monde a visité

Les esquisses de navigateurs perdus

Simple’s adeptes du sans retour.

DEPARTURE

T o discover a new road

In the land of the unknown

A path toward a destination

That I’m yet to paint

On the canvas of my mind

To walk with the only companion

I have ever needed, adventure!

To imbibe your eyes in the blood of Nature

To see feel the uniqueness of the dimensions

Come to draw

On the walls of humanity

Your words

Of kindness and beauty

Come to draw

Create imagine

Fulfil bloom

Come to draw

Walk toward infinity

Meet the multitude

To find oneness

Walk onward

NOTION OF A DREAM

O pen spaces

Crashing species

Southing hazes

I’m the poison

A nude reason

The last dream

Colours of division

Perfume of excess

Echoes of perversion

Sordid newness

I’m the poison

A new reason

The last dream

Infinity! Oh eternity!

Creep on