Prevert

Your writing, and this example in particular, remind me of the poetry of Jacques Prevert.

mansuetude - French Word-A-Day 2010

The GOPs are already painting him as a "Commie Prevert" so why shouldn't he nominate a card-carrying liberal so we can watch them foam at the mouth?

The Supremes: Out of Their (Ivy) League 2010

This has been a very interesting discussion and will give me much to think about next time I pick up Rimbaud, Prevert, or Keats.

Refutation in verse 2010

Forthcoming are a new edition of the Prevert and a new collection of poems called Light Light or the Curvature of the EArth.

belladonna* has the most excellent Carol Mirakove Lemon Hound 2007

Forthcoming are a new edition of the Prevert and a new collection of poems called Light Light or the Curvature of the EArth.

Archive 2007-09-01 Lemon Hound 2007

He tried in vain to find a copper-mine of which he had heard from Prevert of St Malo.

The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain Charles William Colby 1911

Sieur Prevert gave to the savages wedges and chisels and other things necessary to extract the ore of this mine, which they promised to do, and on the following year to bring and give the same to Sieur Prevert.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

We landed to see whether we could find the mines which Prevert had reported to us.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 Samuel de Champlain 1601

Prevert did not make this exploration, personally, although he pretended that he did.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

There is also another small river emptying about half way from that by which Sieur Prevert returned, in which there are two lake-like bodies of water.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601