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L’étape

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Maintenant l’étape est brève

Qui conduit au Pays noir.

Séché, le rosier du rêve

Qu’arrosait le jeune espoir.

--Amélie Murat

 


Mon âme sœur est peut-être elle,

ma bien-aimée, ma flamme jumelle.

So spirit says, but mind thinks, well . . .

How can you ever really tell?


The trick must be to take the chance:

Not to retreat must mean advance.

What lives must move—or plainly try,

Despite a dreamer's running dry.


Christmas 2023



 
 
 

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