Think Draw - Picture - fleur du mal

Title: fleur du mal
created on 06 Jun 12

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1. chelydra wrote: title is from a book of poems by Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil. This certainly deserves a long screed, but I'm not really qualified to write it. Anyone else is welcome to!
2. chelydra wrote: http://fleursdumal.org/ To be honest they don't seem as great as I remembered them, but maybe I'm just not in the mood.
3. chelydra wrote: Obsession Great forests you frighten me, like vast cathedrals: You roar like an organ, and in our condemned souls, aisles of eternal mourning, where past death-rattles
4. chelydra wrote: ...sound, the echo of your De Profundis rolls. I hate you, Ocean! My mind, in your tumultuous main, sees itself: I hear the vast laughter of your seas, the bitter laughter of defeated men,
5. chelydra wrote: ...filled with the sound of sobs and blasphemies. How you would please me without your stars, O Night! I know the language that their light employs! Since I search for darkness, nakedness,
6. chelydra wrote: ...the Void! But the shadows themselves seem, to my sight canvases, where thousands of lost beings, alive, and with a familiar gaze, leap from my eyes.
7. chelydra wrote: in the original--Obsession-- Grands bois, vous m'effrayez comme des cathÃ©drales; / Vous hurlez comme l'orgue; et dans nos coeurs maudits, / Chambres d'Ã©ternel deuil oÃ¹ vibrent de vieux rÃ¢les, / RÃ©pondent les Ã©chos de vos De profundis
8. chelydra wrote: Je te hais, OcÃ©an! tes bonds et tes tumultes, / Mon esprit les retrouve en lui; ce rire amer / De l'homme vaincu, plein de sanglots et d'insultes, / Je l'entends dans le rire Ã©norme de la mer / Comme tu me plairais, Ã´ nuit! sans ces Ã©toi
9. chelydra wrote: Dont la lumiÃ¨re parle un langage connu! / Car je cherche le vide, et le noir, et le nu! / Mais les tÃ©nÃ¨bres sont elles-mÃªmes des toiles / OÃ¹ vivent, jaillissant de mon oeil par milliers, / Des Ãªtres disparus aux regards familiers.
10. chelydra wrote: That was the one I recall being impressed by... I love poetry in languages I barely understand... or don't understand at all...
11. chelydra wrote: In case anyone got mixed up, the poem above is by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867 or thereabouts) from Fluers du Mal.
12. lastcrazyhorn wrote: I like this so much!
13. indigo wrote: I speak French and read it only for myself, never really got into poetry but this poem is so interesting! Merci! ~J^
14. lesley_gene wrote: Very moving poem. Your flower is quite beautiful actually.
15. Normal wrote: Fix your spelling, please! Your fleur is not so mal...
16. chelydra wrote: eyesight is not what it used to be... i had this as fleur du MAIL...
17. Normal wrote: Nor is mine - nor typing either. Thanks.
18. five wrote: excellent color
19. nancylee wrote: I agree - this fleur is not mal, but I get the point!
20. hanging wrote: ...took me a while to read and digest the poem (no way in French though...!) like both poem and pic as your expression
21. golehto wrote: excellent
22. arty wrote: A truly lovley piece of work.
23. hjjr wrote: wow on the colors