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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.