Où es-tu, fille aux grands yeux noirs
De neige, mon bonheur d’un soir ?
Je t’attends, mon amante bleue,
Mon soleil, mon cœur fabuleux. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Month: March 2019
Absinthe: The Green Goddess, by Aleister Crowley
Absinthe: The Green Goddess is an essay in 8 parts by the famous occultist Aleister Crowley, first published in The International, Vol XII No.2, February 1918. It seems to have been composed in the legendary Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Le chemin de sable, par Sabine Sicaud
Ce beau poème de Sabine Sicaud, également pris dans son recueil posthume de 1958, respire l’harmonie, la douceur et la paix. La jeune fille semble à nouveau s’adresser à un compagnon imaginaire. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Clair, by Gilbert O’Sullivan
The Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan was popular in the early 1970’s. One of his greatest hits has been the song Clair, which ranked top in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1972. It tells his affectionate love for a little girl aged 3 or 4 whom he babysat, the daughter of his producer-manager Gordon Mills. He expresses his feelings straightforwardly, with a spontaneity that would be difficult to find in our epoch of moral panic about intergenerational relations: “Each time I leave you I feel I could die / Nothing means more to me than hearing you say / ‘I’m going to marry you / Will you marry me, Uncle Ray ?’” (O’Sullivan’s real forename was Raymond.) CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Le chemin de l’amour, par Sabine Sicaud
Sabine Sicaud est une poétesse-enfant française méconnue. Née le 23 février 1913 à Villeneuve-sur-Lot dans la maison de ses parents nommée La Solitude, elle est morte au même endroit le 12 juillet 1928 d’une maladie (l’ostéomyélite) contractée un an plus tôt. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
We saw a mermaid, by Graham Ovenden
Today I give a poetic composition by a contemporary British artist. Mostly known as a photographer and painter, Ovenden is also a connoisseur of poetry: for the 7th anniversary post in Pigtails in Paint, he proposed the poem “The Seven Ages of Girlhood” by Ashby-Sterry, which is how I learned about that 19th century poet. Moreover, he also writes some poetry himself, for instance he contributed the poem “A Father to his Seven Year Old Daughter” to that anniversary post. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…