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UN CINGLÉ PARMI LES FOUS / Northern gannet / Fou de Bassan

UN CINGLÉ PARMI LES FOUS

Un conifère en ébauche
Pensant bien pouvoir voler
Un beau jour prit la pose
Bras tendus bien écartés
Imitant le vol plané
Des milliers de fous de Bassan
Qui l'ont toujours fasciné
Par leur maîtrise du vent

Il avait pourtant raison
De penser pouvoir voler
Car son rêve dont nous parlons
Fut en partie exaucé
Oui, on a fait un avion
Du fût de son tronc coupé
Laissant au sol sans façon
Cette souche dénaturée

Baisser les bras? Non jamais!

Espoir, miracle songea-t-il
Pour ce qu'il a tant rêvé
Les fous quittent bien cette île!
Pourquoi m'y enraciner?

Bien qu'il ait perdu la tête
Depuis plusieurs décennies
Il garde toujours en crête
Le souhait de partir d'ici

Comme le temps fait bien les choses
Éole eût pitié de lui
D'un nordet voué à sa cause
De s'envoler lui permit

Oui s'envoler lui permit
Mais le chicot gît morose
Car il vole…
Oui il vole... mais en charpie!
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A CRAZY AMONG THE FOOLS

A conifer in its draft thinking he could fly
One fine day took the pose, arms wide apart
Mimicking gliding flight of thousands of gannets
Who have always fascinated him with their wind mastery

He was right to think he could fly
Because his dream we’re talking about was partly realized
Yes, a plane was made from its cut trunk
Leaving the stump anchored on the ground without ceremony

Give up? No never!

Hope... miracle... he thought
For what he dreamed so much
The fool gannets are leaving this island!
Why am I rooted here?

Though he’s been out of his mind for decades
He always keeps in crest the wish to leave here

Because time does things right
Eole did have mercy for him
A north wind dedicated to his cause
To Fly away allowed him

Yes, flying away allowed him
But the stump lies morose
Because it flies... Yes, it flies... but in lint!


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Christine P. Newman09-Jul-2006 22:03
Ca te ressemble tellement, ce poème. Une belle excentricité!
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