Gratuitous Poetry Post

[salinea]

C'est Lou qu'on la nommait

Il est des loups de toute sorte
Je connais le plus inhumain
Mon cœur que le diable l'emporte
Et qu'il le dépose à sa porte
N'est plus qu'un jouet dans sa main

Les loups jadis étaient fidèles
Comme sont les petits toutous
Et les soldats amants des belles
Galamment en souvenir d'elles
Ainsi que les loups étaient doux

Mais aujourd'hui les temps sont pires
Les loups sont tigres devenus
Et les Soldats et les Empires
Les Césars devenus Vampires
Sont aussi cruels que Vénus

J'en ai pris mon parti Rouveyre
Et monté sur mon grand cheval
Je vais bientôt partir en guerre
Sans pitié chaste et l'œil sévère
Comme ces guerriers qu'Épinal

Vendait Images populaires
Que Georgin gravait dans le bois
Où sont-ils ces beaux militaires
Soldats passés Où sont les guerres
Où sont les guerres d'autrefois

Appolinaire

Comments

[solesakuma]

Mon Dieu! Je compris! XP Agh, now if I remember how to write in French.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

C'est fantastique! Vas-y, lances-toi!

[solesakuma]

I plan on retaking it in the future, after I'm 'formally' finished with German. I mean, I lost three years in high-school in a very useless French program (well, not that useless, some classmates got to make fondue and we got to eat creme caramel, accents be damned... and teachers told their Paris anecdotes) and I did learn something so...

[scriva.livejournal.com]

Est-ce Lou qui vend les images à la fin du poéme?

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

(*admits defeat at reading it and hunts down a translation - note to self: study more*) Nice poem! I love the first verse, and I really should go and read some more Appollinaire.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

non. C'est Epinal. Imade d'Epinal est une expression qui veut dire cliche de type scolaire, traditionnel and conservateur. Mais je n'en connais pas l'origine.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You took German and French? My, you're a masochist.

sometimes one learn more than they thought.

I had 5 years of spanish and they were mostly wasted given how much spanish I can speak XD but I can still understand a simple text if I apply myself but that's mostly because the languages are so similar.

[solesakuma]

They made me take French but yeah, the German was voluntary. XP

Yeah, Romance languages do have advantages. XP

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Jesus Apollinaire

invented

emo.
I'm not much about poetry though this is a nice poem,minus the cringeworthy emo ending :P But there are two poems I really love. I might post one now actually: it's "la cigarette" de Jules Laforgue. The other one is a Beaudelaire poem. Beaudelaire pwns.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Verlaine would take offense to that. And Baudelaire. Baudelaire invented a whole new word to mean "emo", how emo is that? And a bunch of other earlier poets too ^^

Baudelaire dpesn pwn occasionnaly ^^ Can't claim to know Laforgue well.

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Nah, there's severely depressed and then there's emo :p tisnt the same

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

But being stuck fighting WW1 counts as emo, then?