Poetic Awakening
Beholding the stars
until daybreak, with its morning red,
closes the iris of the nightexperience the dreamed dream
not only as a dreambut read the veins
in the palm of the rose’s handlike the future of time.
until daybreak, with its morning red,
closes the iris of the nightexperience the dreamed dream
not only as a dreambut read the veins
in the palm of the rose’s handlike the future of time.
Germain Droogenbroodt
Translation: Stefanie Van de Peer – Richie Mccaffery
From: “The Ephemeral Flower of Time – De efemere bloem van de tijd”
POINT Editions 2017
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The Poem of the Week is published in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Romanian and Spanish. You wish we can also mail it – free – in one of those languages. See former published Poems of the Week in English, Spanish and Dutch at www.point-editions.com
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