Approaching Sixty - by
In the Central Café
/ in Innsbruck,
/ a girl in a dark-blue dress
/ unlooses her hair from its clasp
/ so it falls to her waist,…
beauty
African Moon - by
In my village where girls dress
In clothes the color of joy
And dance to the slender sound of the drum
from Song for Yacine Mbaye - by
Championne 1974 des 1,500 mètres
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/ Mbaye toi aussi Mbaye, si je t’ai choisie Mbaye,
/ c’est pour ta beauté vraie
/ Pour ta…
Miss World: Beauty Contest - by
Their gowns fold and flatten like water
/ on their consummate columns as they go,
/ the paragons and apples of their race.
/ Their nacreous…
She Walks in Beauty - by
She walks in beauty, like the night
/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
/ And all that’s best of dark…