Né à Gand le 10 décembre 1870 et mort à Paris le 4 juin 1925, l’écrivain français Pierre Louÿs s’illustra par des romans, contes, poèmes en vers et en prose. Il pratiqua aussi le canular, d’ailleurs son œuvre la plus connue, Les Chansons de Bilitis, un recueil de poèmes érotiques en prose, en fut un : il la fit passer pour une traduction d’une poétesse grecque contemporaine de Sappho. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The first post of Poets and Lovers was a poetic composition by the contemporary British artist Graham Ovenden. Now for the hundredth post, I have chosen another one, from the same collection Waterside Memories. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
My last selection from that young poetess: a little girl’s fantasy about ages printed on a cardboard. This is also my ninety ninth post. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Around May 1846, Edgar Allan Poe moved in a small and humble cottage in The Bronx, New York City, with his wife Virginia Eliza Clemm and her mother Maria. It would be the last home of the couple. Virginia died of tuberculosis in the cottage’s first floor bedroom on January 30, 1847; then Edgar died in mysterious circumstances in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, while he was travelling back home from Richmond. Upon hearing the news of his death, his mother-in-law Maria moved out of the cottage. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Un beau poème de Minou Drouet dédié à son premier amour, Lucette Descaves, sa professeure de piano. Au moment de sa composition, Mme Descaves avait 41 ans de plus que Minou, alors âgée de 8 ou 9 ans. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The poet sings his beloved and her sweet face. But fear hides the light of her love. Now the kiss is master of fear, so love is stronger than shame, and the climax comes unupbraided. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Poets and Lovers, le phénix d’Agapeta, existe depuis six mois. Sa base de donnée fut créée sur un site expérimental le 17 mars, et il reçut son nom de domaine le 20. Voici son premier secret : CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Poets and Lovers, the second version of Agapeta, exists since six months. More precisely, it started at an experimental level on a confidential site on March 17, then it got its current domain name on the 20th. Like Pigtails in Paint, it is hosted by Rainbow Digital Media. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Fleur effeuillée, fente dévoilée, fruit défendu, forêt sacrée, feu allumé, fenêtre rouge du désir…
Je suis là
Toute nue
Dans la rue
Sans lilas
Pour voiler
Ma vertu
Qui n’est plus
Sans péché
Précédemment publié sur Agapeta, 2016/03/21.
When a child seems precocious and does things generally regarded as above the capacities of her age, one often wonders what role her parents did play in her achievements. Did she develop her gifts by herself, independently of any adult influence? Or did her parents encourage her talent? Or did they train her intensively like a circus animal in order to artificially create a genius? CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
