Untitled (translation below)

Hope you like it, can you help me finding a title?

Le soleil, la nuit,

Les etoiles de ma vie,

Allument l'espoir d'eteindre

Mes ennuis jadis.

J'ai vu ailleurs

Le bonheur si longtemps

Desire

Rejoindre les esprits

Dans plusieurs reincarnations.

J'ai connu aussi

La gloire de la defaite,

Les fruits de la fatigue,

Les larmes qui remercient.

Pardonnez-moi,

Poets maudits

Mais cette fois

Aucun ciel gris

Brisera ce chant

De pure joie.

TRANSLATION:

The sun, the night,

The stars* of my life

Light up the hope of switching off

My past boredom.

I've seen in other places,

The happiness for so long

Desired

Rejoin the souls

For several reincarnations.

I've also experienced

The glory of defeat,

The fruits of hard-work,

The tears that thank.

Forgive me,

Cursed poets*

But this time

No grey sky

Will break this song

Of pure cheerfulness.

Stars of my life = the people i love the most and always stood by my side

Cursed poets = They are famous french poets called that way because they had a very unlucky life full of struggles and sorrow, usually the most popular one is Baudelaire.

Author's Note

If you can read it in the original language (French), the translation lost much of the meaning :( Some words are just untranslatable like "ennui" or "ailleurs".
Wrote this on my last day of school, still have to take the final exams but it looked to me as a cheerful day anyway :)

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I like the words in the poem. Have the feel of real life and logic.
"Forgive me,
Cursed poets*
But this time
No grey sky
Will break this song
Of pure cheerfulness."
Sometime we must dig deep and hold cheerfulness as the last stand. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[TL Boehm]

This is beautiful - the English portion is so simply stated yet still eloquent.

[Frieda P]

It's still gorgeous even if it lost something in the translation...stunning work!

'Cursed poets song' comes to mind....

[kublakhan27]

I love the Cursed Poets motif...they're a kind of counterpart to the English Romantics, not that they were a cheery bunch by any means...I have great respect for those who aren't only bilingual, but can write poetry in different languages, it's quite the talent...great work :)

[Inda]

This is fantastic! You create a feeling of sorrow along with joy, almost as if there is guilt in the air, the way you apologize for the fact that you are a happy poet, that really planted a seed. Love it!

[Leslie Philibert]

As ever great.. I was in France last week, and polished up my rotten French, ennui is indeed hard,try dullness or sadness rather than boredom. Great !

[Vidya Bacchus]

Really beautiful in both languages as your poems always are :)