Poetry in Fiction, Samples – Grandma and Grandpa in the Latin Quarter
Pictured Left : “Grandma and Grandpa in the Latin Quarter”, available on Amazon Books.
Fiction, 2,863 story words.
One of several short stories set in Paris.
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Poetry in Fiction, Samples
Grandma and Grandpa in the Latin Quarter
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Categories : Paris Fiction – Poetry in Fiction
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Poetry in Fiction, in a Short Story
It’s a bit more of a challenge, in a short story like this one, full of fun dialog and nuance, to grab a portion to format into poetry, or at least how poetry is more usually recognized. 🙂
I did, once, write a dialog type poem for a dVersePoets prompt, but that piece as a whole was dialog (interior and exterior).
So I’ll stick with one of several nice descriptive passages I like in this short story.
One that, in re-reading it today for the first time in awhile, I was very pleasantly surprised how endearing, and humorous, across several generations at times, it is.
I hope you enjoy this short excerpt.
Best wishes,
Adan
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Fiction & Poetry, Pros & Cons
It’s kinda ironic that, the strength I see most in each, is in its context.
The fiction excerpt usually has much more power in its context within thousands of other words to give it associated meaning.
While the poetry rendition of the excerpt, gains its power, from its opening lines, to whatever it is the reader brings to the lines. Isolated from everything, except the reader and the text immediately on the page.
I like both. 🙂
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Grandma and Grandpa in the Latin Quarter, Excerpt
Fiction
Rosetta sipped from a fresh glass of wine, dark and deep with Mediterranean grape.
The quiet soothed her, more than the wine. The thick stone walls of the restaurant served as a bastion. Deflecting the slings of unwanted thoughts. Not bad thoughts, just too many. She breathed deeply, a habit from the yoga she and Arturo enjoyed. The quiet filled her. Their food was being gathered, steaming on large plates, in the small kitchen nearby, and faintly, she could hear Arturo’s steps ascending the stairs from below. She was ready, and glad, to eat, she smiled, as the waiter steamed toward her.
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Poetry
Rosetta
sipped from a fresh glass of wine
dark
deep with Mediterranean grape.
The quiet soothed her
more than the wine.
The
thick stone walls of the restaurant
served as a bastion.
Deflecting
the slings
of unwanted thoughts.
Not bad thoughts, just
too many.
She breathed deeply
a habit from the yoga she and Arturo enjoyed.
The quiet filled her.
Their food was being gathered
steaming
on large plates
in the small kitchen
nearby
faintly
she could hear Arturo’s steps ascending the stairs from below.
She was ready
glad to eat, she smiled
as the waiter steamed toward her.
© 2013 felipe adan lerma
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Excerpt from a FB post I made for this Title
[ added 121813 ]
i reread this little story the day it went up free, and was very pleasantly surprised how well it help up vs my last memory of it (sweet, nice, not bad) – what i saw this slightly detached go-round, besides more humor than i’d remembered, and a bit more nuanced banter between the two seniors, was the reader-perceptual contrast between grandma and grandpa’s interior lives and interaction, vs my (the reader) perceptual shock of how they “appeared” to me vs the 6 grandchildren when they all met up near the end of the book – the same two people, as “seen” by the teens and tweens, are different, not bad or less, but different; it just struck me as very interesting and unexpected i learned there
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Other Articles You May LIke :
- “Grandma” – Original Family Poetry
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- Gift for Seniors – Original Inspirational Poetry, Matted Mounted 8 x 10s (felipeadanlerma.com)
- Speakeasy 107! The Night Before Christmas: Grandpa’s Story (bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com)
- Journal # 9: Grandma (amandaqu95.wordpress.com)
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namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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