Friday, 5 February 2021

in Paris in black and white

in Paris in black and white


who will share in black and white

a street light in Paris on a winter’s night

cigarette glow in snow and smoke and mist

wet cobbled hills up slow Montmartre 


and who will walk the talking walk

along the postered whispered boulevard

adverts tattered of gowns on boards

soaked in tears this city end of night


arming hearts once paired in dance

down hours lit of dimming light

down everything that dims the thought

that no thoughts may pertain 


and all in black and white

at the very very end of night

cry stop do stay do not go

but gone is now the morrow that


has broken faith and dawned and crept away 

on this time-startled dawn

and slept is never the ended word

at the end of a street 

in Paris 

in black and white





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