Facsimile: Poetry bY Arthur Rimbaud by Barbara Heide

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27-JAN-2013	Barbara Heide

Facsimile: Poetry bY Arthur Rimbaud

Monthly Challenge January 2013: Black & White

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My Bohemia: A Fantasy

(Ma Bohème: Fantaisie)

I ran off, fists in my ragged seams:

Even my overcoat was becoming Ideal:

I went under the sky, Muse! I was yours:

Oh! What miraculous loves I dreamed!

My only pair of pants was a big hole.

– Tom Thumb the dreamer, sowing the roads there

With rhymes. My inn the Sign of the Great Bear.

– My stars in the sky rustling to and fro.

I heard them, squatting by the wayside,

In September twilights, there I felt the dew

Drip on my forehead, like a fierce coarse wine.

Where, rhyming into the fantastic dark,

I plucked, like lyre strings, the elastics

Of my tattered shoes, a foot pressed to my heart.

Ma bohème

Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ;
Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ;
J'allais sous le ciel, Muse, et j'étais ton féal ;
Oh! là là! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvées !

Mon unique culotte avait un large trou.
Petit-Poucet rêveur, j'égrenais dans ma course
Des rimes. Mon auberge était à la Grande-Ourse.
Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou

Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes,
Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes
De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur ;

Où, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques,
Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques
De mes souliers blessés, un pied près de mon coeur !

Arthur Rimbaud

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David De Ciantis		25-Dec-2020 00:52
Who is the property of this? thank you contact me at daviddeciantis@hotmail.it

Cindi Smith		31-Jan-2013 00:56
Wonderful poetry. Wow, this is cool!

Guest		30-Jan-2013 15:47
Wonderful capture of this manuscript! Beautiful handwriting!!!

Frank Brault		29-Jan-2013 01:26
Wonderful! V

Guest		28-Jan-2013 14:18
makes things personnal. V

Yvonne		28-Jan-2013 10:44
What an innovate idea!

Stephanie		28-Jan-2013 09:59
Very well captured manuscript ~ perfect for the B&W challenge! :)

Janice Dunn		28-Jan-2013 09:30
What a lovely idea to post this Barbara - well done

Micky Waby		28-Jan-2013 08:39
Stunning capture of this beautifully handwritten poem.A dying art, children now days have little tuition in handwriting.

Mieke WA Minkjan		28-Jan-2013 07:28
a beautiful poem of one of my favourite poets! I like the rhyme in the original French sonnet thank you Barbara for sharing!

borisalex		28-Jan-2013 07:12
This is very nice!

carol j. phipps		28-Jan-2013 02:08
Thanks for sharing the poetry! Nice script!

larose forest photos		27-Jan-2013 22:45
I am always fascinated by these types of handwritten manuscripts. Looking at them makes the authors feel a little more close in time. V

Brenda		27-Jan-2013 22:21
Wonderful photo. I am impressed that the author didn't cross out any words. I struggle to write and would have had a messy paper.

Ann...		27-Jan-2013 22:05
Excellent. It's always interesting to see a manuscript which is in the authors handwriting and wonder if it was the final draft.

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