3 Poèmes de la Gare Montparnasse

3 Poèmes de la Gare Montparnasse is a small poetry cycle I wrote while waiting on a train at the Montparnasse station in Paris. Perhaps it was the atmosphere that inspired me, but I ended up writing three poems in rapid succession. Considering the fact that I usually only write about a poem a month and it tends to take me forever, I thought it was a rather noteworthy moment.

The poems are three different takes on the exact same theme, and while some refer to legend and mythology, the actual topic is very much one set in real life. For this reason I have chosen to put the poems in Melpomene's Maze.

I had a lot of fun playing around with various allusions, puns, and references. Some are obvious, some might need at least a basic knowledge of the classics to make sense.


A room full of boxes is a little bit of free form. I don't usually post unedited, hot-off-the-press "raw" material like this piece, but I thought it'd be nice to put this one in just to see how terrible my stuff is if I don't whip it into a shape that's less mediocre and more actually stomachable.

Love Song for Judas was originally meant as a sonnet, but as I started I decided that it wasn't quite going to work. In fact, the only resemblance it bears to a sonnet now is that it counts fourteen lines, divided over two quintuplets and a quatrain.

The Laurel Tree is probably the most structured poem of the three. I've been mucking about a little with an AAB-AAB rhyme scheme and a more or less 7/7/9 syllable pattern here. It didn't quite work out, but I still like the result. :)