Caligramme the Form
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You may listen to my YouTube clip of this translation under my pen name ichthyschiro featuring the visual vertical vertical 'calligramme ' &my voice in English and Apollinaire's 'Il Pleut ' by my youngest granddaughter in French @ https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=8s&v=73aTfJS20hk
A form of Modern Visual Poetry createdby Apollinaire
here- my dynamic paraphrase translation of Apollinaire I'll Pleut
It rains voices
of women
fallen from memory:
in you also o raindrops,
rains
the crucial events
of my life.
And these clouds
thunder aloud
a world
with a host of voices.
Hear,it rains
of regret and contempt
weeping
their well-worn tunes,
hear,those falling shackles
that imprison
you head to toe.
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2023
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