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Giving You Coal Flowers

Wait for the shutters to be closed, we will enter an enclosure in complete silence, like a deep cave which I don't know the way. My eyes will ignore all of the lights; there will be no more words just the presence of your body and your breath. I will choose a landscape with anthracite clouds, a plain stripped of its green mountains; I will ,then ,bend down to offer you coal flowers, of those who keep a little hope and glow in the dark without being seen. --- translated from french - Attends que les volets soient clos, nous entrerons dans une enceinte au silence plein, comme une grotte profonde dont je ne connais pas le chemin. Mes yeux ignoreront tout de la lumière; il n’y aura plus de mots juste la présence de ton corps et de ton haleine . Je choisirai un paysage aux nuages anthracite, une plaine débarrassée de ses montagnes vertes ; je me pencherai alors pour t’offrir des fleurs de charbon , de celles qui conservent un peu d’espoir et brillent dans le noir sans qu’on les voie.

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Date: 3/20/2022 2:19:00 PM
A lovely piece Rene, look forward to more from your gifted pen.
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Rene Chabriere
Date: 3/24/2022 3:04:00 AM
thanks for reading & appreciation !
Date: 3/19/2022 1:47:00 PM
Beautiful poem to read Rene. I enjoyed it....Lekau
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Rene Chabriere
Date: 3/20/2022 3:15:00 AM
thanks a lot !

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