La Peinture Noire

translation below


Noir
Le noir, la nuit,rêves vides
Tu n’a jamais vu la noirceur comme moi
Le matin, tu te réveilles inlassablement
Le soleil, la pluie, un autre jour
Vous existez, moi, je rêve d'exister
Je dois faire naitre mon existence
Pour l'instant
Le noir est tout à fait l`obscurité
La nuit, le jour, les rêves
Tout, tout noir
Je prends mon pinceau,
En même temps je regarde ma peinture
Chaque jour, heure après heure
J’essaie de faire la peinture la plus magnifique
J’imagine mon tableau, explosant de pastels
A la fin
Je pleure
Quand je regarde mon chef d’œuvre
Tout simplement
Une peinture noire

Translation

The Black Painting

Black
The black, the night, empty dreams
You have never seen the blackness as I
The morning, you awake to whatever
The sun, the rain, another day
You exist, I dream to exist
I give birth to my existence
For the moment
The black is always the darkness
The night, the day, the dreams
All, all is black
I take my paint brush
At the same time I look at my painting
All day, hour by hour
I try to make a most magnificant painting
I imagine the painting, exploding in pastels
In the end
I cry
It is simply
A black painting

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Date: 5/18/2017 7:28:00 PM
As if by the hand of a madman. He imagines color but alas it is only black he sees. J'aime!
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Date: 1/16/2015 6:17:00 PM
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Date: 1/9/2015 1:49:00 PM
Inside four walls? That's a conversation stopper. No worries I will not bother you with any additional questions.
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Etienne Lariviere
Date: 1/16/2015 3:36:00 PM
Oh la la You misunderstand Richard, :) I was sure you would have guessed my friend
Date: 12/31/2014 8:07:00 AM
I tried to read the French version but sadly my French is lacking. My French language ended before I was born. My grandfather married an English woman and grandma didn't allow French to be spoken in the house. So my dad his brother and sister they all didn't learn. I enjoyed your English Version. Where do you live?
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Etienne Lariviere
Date: 1/9/2015 1:30:00 PM
Inside four walls :)
Date: 12/6/2014 3:17:00 PM
I understand some French. I took two years at university. I loved reading this in French and then having the English to compare it to my understanding. I did well. It is a poem of longing and desire...I know these feelings well. Welcome, here. Thank you for reading my poem. Bien venu...
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Etienne Lariviere
Date: 1/9/2015 1:29:00 PM
Merci bien
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