Preserve my Aquitaine from the plots they prepare
(Translation into a sonnet in English from a French occitan sonnet written in Alexandrin. See original here or here)
22 December 2016
Find hidden in the dens the old lion weakened
With no past no morrow dried shrunken source expose
Relegating rivers to care of oblivion
The keys of tomorrow within the soul dispose
See him resume matter of substance ennobled
Amber and myrrh on jasmine a carpet depose
Prune the trees in clearings wood in hue established
Plowing hard a pathway into our hearts repose
Draw me a little lamb running free in the shed
Cloister cold of domain where good hearts are rotting
Relinquish to me ring from before I was dead
The wolves cover the plain make our bodies repair
Revive in me the torch stretched to vain time ticking
Preserve my Aquitaine from the plots they prepare
Reading of the poem:
Comfortably Numb – Roger Waters
Watching TV – Roger Waters
Perfect Sense I & II – Roger Waters
Three Wishes – Roger Waters
The Tide is Turning – Roger Waters
Amused to Death – Roger Waters