Sometimes I stick out from my friends a bit - I think. It's the French in me. Americans have this excité-ment about things - that's, well, exhausting.
Sometimes, when friends are jumping about, they practically plead for my engagement. I think I have a genetic, French reticence, an observer gene.
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It is a great charisma to be able to take a break from your routine, to just calm down and meditate. I could never imagine French people doing that. I thought they were people living fast. Your poem is splendid!
The last two lines are marvelous! 'there are poems in the stillness' - loved this poetic observation, precociously coming from a talented teenager. The poem, so well written, deserves full marks and I gladly give it: 5 Stars *****! I recommend this poem to be selected as the 'Member Poem of the Day' for any day soon.