Fleur messagère
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
J'ai mis sur cette fleur un baiser plein d'ivresse,
Pour vous qui m'avez pris tout mon coeur en un jour.
Puissiez-vous deviner la discrète caresse
De cet ardent baiser d'amour!
J'ai raconté tout bas à la fleur palpitante
La joie et les douleurs qui me viennent de vous
Puissiez-vous retrouver dans son odeur troublante
Ces aveux sincères et fous!
Enfin dans cette fleur j'ai mis toute mon âme,
Comme si je croyais au langage des fleurs,
Et j'ai laissé tomber, brûlants comme la flamme,
Dans son calice, tous mes pleurs!
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Messenger flower", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 12
Word count: 90
Messenger flower
Language: English  after the French (Français)
I planted a drunken kiss on this flower for you,
who stole my heart away in a single day.
May you guess the discrete caress
of this ardent love kiss!
I whispered to the palpitating flower
all the joy and pain you give me.
May you will find in its disturbing scent
these sincere, crazy confessions!
Finally, I put my whole soul into this flower,
as if I believed in the language of the flowers,
and I dropped all my tears, burning like flames,
into its calyx!
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2004 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 87