Jean Valentine Blue Poems

  • 1.
    We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.
    I got there first: in a white dress: I remember
    Wondering if you'd come. Then you shot over the bank,
    A Virgilian Nigger Jim, and poled us off
    ...
  • 2.
    I am twenty,
    drifting in la chalupa,
    the blue boat painted with roses,
    white liliesâ??
    ...
  • 3.
    I needed a friend but
    I was in the other room â??
    not just the other room,
    another frame dragging blue
    ...
Total 3 Blue Poems by Jean Valentine

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Friend 4 Away 3 Life 3 Red 3 Water 3 Year 3 Blue 3 Beauty 2 Breath 2 Dream 2

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Joan Sidney: Jean was a great poet, an incredibly caring human being, and a wonderful teacher. Her passing is a great loss to all of us. I met her in 2012 at the Artist’s Colony.

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