Budding need
by joanie
Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005 Word Count: 59 Summary: My response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar. I used a few pages from Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' and Colette's 'le blé en herbe'. |
Stability a platform
wedge-shaped in the rashness,
l'écho d'un cri.
Storms raging outside
the core of darkness,
l'explosion des larmes.
People must have children
to wrap in a mantle of peace.
Une petite poire tombée.
Vocab: One can guess the meaning of most of the French words. des larmes - tears(noun), Une poire - a pear,
tombée - fallen.
wedge-shaped in the rashness,
l'écho d'un cri.
Storms raging outside
the core of darkness,
l'explosion des larmes.
People must have children
to wrap in a mantle of peace.
Une petite poire tombée.
Vocab: One can guess the meaning of most of the French words. des larmes - tears(noun), Une poire - a pear,
tombée - fallen.