The Swallows' Spring Dance Poem by Alain Ilan Braun

The Swallows' Spring Dance

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The Swallows’ Spring Dance

O swallows, please dance in my murky sky
And inscribe your lightning arabesques
Holding hidden messages
That only you can understand
Announce this long-awaited spring
Know that the cruel winter ruined my heart
Twitter, I beg you
Your music, light and fragile as a tiny white cloud
Inspire me then a delightful song
For my soul, bruised and mute
That I may come with a powerful dash
To the firmament, joining you in a wild gambol
Another swallow in the spring’s blue

Oh, dansez hirondelles dans mon ciel si gris
Et inscrivez de fulgurantes arabesques aux messages cachés
Que vous seules comprenez
Annoncez-moi, s’il vous plaît ce printemps tant attendu
Sachez que l’hiver mauvais m’a gâché le cœur
Gazouillez, je vous prie
Votre musique légère et fragile comme un minuscule nuage blanc
Inspirez-moi alors une belle chanson
Pour mon âme muette et meurtrie
Que je vienne en un puissant élan
Vous rejoindre au firmament
Dans la folle danse
Une hirondelle de plus dans le bleu du printemps

Translated freely from the French by the author

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Elena Sandu 05 October 2011

Very beautiful sweet and smart! Whose soul wouldn't become a bird to sing the colours of the spring after a long winter's gray and cold? Love this poem thank you for share, how can I give it more than ten?

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Vipins Puthooran 02 October 2011

May that swallows dance up in an azure sky to fledge your dreams in the longest day of spring, flutter its feathers wide in cold air to melt your agonies as snow and sing a song for you.. Excellent write... It's a wonderful poem...top marks 10++++

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