A Pastoral Scene (Paysage en anglais)

Mon Ami, le grand poète britannique Norton Hodges, a traduit mon poème "Paysage" en anglais. Qu'il en soir remercié!


A Pastoral Scene

for Daniel Martini

‘Oh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?’
A.E. Housman

On a silent evening, embroidered with the flight of birds,
your silence, My Prince, is as soft as this silken sky
and as beautiful as a poem woven by these branches
which tenderly kiss the fingers of your hands trembling
with feelings that cannot be expressed.

Translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
June 2009