Brian Strand Poet Verse

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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

Caligramme the Form

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.

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