Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
HELIOTROPES (English)
Heliotropes
To Jose Gorostiza
‘Crystal grains, pure dews'
Père Martial de Brives
It's a fine day that comes with white camellias
on its heart!
Shining turtledoves
fly back and forth
like pages of happiness
turning in my mind!
Listen! I can hear their silken wings!
Oh, how I love the sweet roundness
of morning words,
like the drops of blood in
heliotropes!
Athanase Vantchev de Thracy
Translated into French by Norton Hodges
To Jose Gorostiza
‘Crystal grains, pure dews'
Père Martial de Brives
It's a fine day that comes with white camellias
on its heart!
Shining turtledoves
fly back and forth
like pages of happiness
turning in my mind!
Listen! I can hear their silken wings!
Oh, how I love the sweet roundness
of morning words,
like the drops of blood in
heliotropes!
Athanase Vantchev de Thracy
Translated into French by Norton Hodges
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HELIOTROPES (English)
HELIOTROPES (English)
