La plaie en mon seing écorche l’écriture
(English translation below the French videos by Julien Clerc)
18 February 2016
Le pas leste feutré mon ombre me précède
Le printemps est là, le temps des cerises
Rebondissements las, conter les surprises
Le cœur vif outré, voyez je ne cède
Le cœur démembré ne sait point remède
Le monstre le Horla me prépare traîtrises
Sous lames de prélat enterrer vies grises
Les stries rouges zébrées sort du ciel qui m’aide
J’ai souffle en mon sein délicates nervures
De tollé de peurs construire un chemin
Rougir les dessins écarlates zébrures
D’enivrantes vapeurs saouler parchemin
La plaie en mon seing écorche l’écriture
Conter les douleurs rouge vif en carmin
Lecture du poème:
Les Séparés – Julien Clerc
Si j’étais elle – Julien Clerc
Ma préférence – Julien Clerc
The wound in my seal flays the writing
18 February 2016
With hushed nimble step my shadow before me arises
Spring has arrived, it is cherry blossom days
Unexpected twists, a tale of surprises
The bright heart outraged, see how my mind never sways
The dismembered heart knows no remedy
The monster the Horla is preparing treachery
Under prelate blades we bury gray lives
Zebra red streaks magic of heaven that with me connives
I have breath in my breast delicate arteries
From fears outcry construct a road
To redden the etchings scarlet striped welts
From intoxicating vapors make drunken parchment
The wound in my seal flays the writing
Storytelling sufferings from bright red to carmine
Reading of the poem:
Thank you dear Poet. I enjoyed your poetry and tale this morning. Thank you for the good song. I added many to my favorited.
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Welcome and thank you dear John. I am happy you liked the selection 🙂
I am adding here a tango song I like; I found it cute because she starts with dear John 🙂
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So beautiful and powerful 🙂 this has a Victorian feel to it that I love ❤
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Thank you Sangamitra. I am glad you like its feel 🙂
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Le crayon. I wanted to get into a little of ther French thing there with you and Thomas. Well, that is my limit. I am unfamiliar with the word Horla, I found info about a horror piece written by a French writer Guy Maupassant. Is that what you were referring to?? Loved the line about the dismembered heart.
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Yes, it is De Maupassant’s Horla! Thanks a lot Andrew and you can add gomme to your vocabulary 😀
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Hahaha Had to do my research. Smiling hard. Very lovely write.
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Thanks Andrew. Here’s some music for the chimp 🙂
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I am listening to this now as I edit my novel. It is so soothing. Thank you so much.
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Welcome and happy editing 🙂
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Thanks
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Despite my name I can’t speak French. But I loved the translation!
Jean-Paul
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That got me in fits. Your name is so perfectly French 😀 Thanks for the compliment. How is the Spanish onion going? Any new ideas to raise business?
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Superb imagery
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Thank you Derrick 🙂
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it is one of the most effective ways to rid oneself of pain… love the title and all that follows, my friend. I can picture the pain in the shedding of that skin 🙂
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Très vrai mon ami, merci beaucoup 🙂
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De rien, mon ami 🙂
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😀
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🙂
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I added an English translation of some of the meanings. As usual it is quite an exercise to try to put some of the meanings and still leave it looking like a poem. English is sometimes not so helpful with the double/triple meanings and innuendos 😀
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I am sure many will appreciate your efforts to capture the essence of the poem in English. I know it is not easy.:)
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Yes it is not easy 😀
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