Liberté
Sur mes cahiers d’écolier
Sur toutes les pages lues
Sur les images dorées
Sur la jungle et le désert
Sur les merveilles des nuits
Sur tous mes chiffons d’azur
Sur les champs sur l’horizon
Sur chaque bouffée d’aurore
Sur la mousse des nuages
Sur les formes scintillantes
Sur les sentiers éveillés
Sur la lampe qui s’allume
Sur le fruit coupé en deux
Sur mon chien gourmand et tendre
Sur le tremplin de ma porte
Sur toute chair accordée
Sur la vitre des surprises
Sur mes refuges détruits
Sur l’absence sans désir
Sur la santé revenue
Et par le pouvoir d’un mot
Liberté.
Paul Eluard, Au rendez-vous allemand, 1945, Les Editions de Minuit
Liberté
On my school notebooks
On my desk and on the trees
On the sands of snow
I write your name
On the pages I have read
On all the white pages
Stone, blood, paper or ash
I write your name
On the images of gold
On the weapons of the warriors
On the crown of the king
I write your name
On the jungle and the desert
On the nest and on the brier
On the echo of my childhood
I write your name
On all my scarves of blue
On the moist sunlit swamps
On the living lake of moonlight
I write your name
On the fields, on the horizon
On the birds’ wings
And on the mill of shadows
I write your name
On each whiff of daybreak
On the sea, on the boats
On the demented mountaintop
I write your name
On the froth of the cloud
On the sweat of the storm
On the dense rain and the flat
I write your name
On the flickering figures
On the bells of colours
On the natural truth
I write your name
On the high paths
On the deployed routes
On the crowd-thronged square
I write your name
On the lamp which is lit
On the lamp which isn’t
On my reunited thoughts
I write your name
On a fruit cut in two
Of my mirror and my chamber
On my bed, an empty shell
I write your name
On my dog, greathearted and greedy
On his pricked-up ears
On his blundering paws
I write your name
On the latch of my door
On those familiar objects
On the torrents of a good fire
I write your name
On the harmony of the flesh
On the faces of my friends
On each outstretched hand
I write your name
On the window of surprises
On a pair of expectant lips
In a state far deeper than silence
I write your name
On my crumbled hiding-places
On my sunken lighthouses
On my walls and my ennui
I write your name
On abstraction without desire
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
And for the want of a word
I renew my life
For I was born to know you
To name you
Liberty.
Paul Eluard, Au rendez-vous allemand, 1945, Les Editions de Minuit
(translation: http://allpoetry.com/Libert-)
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