Sunday, October 09, 2011

Le Moribond



Jacques Brel (April 8th, 1929 – October 9th, 1978)

3 comments:

  1. SILENCE IN THE WORLD

    Let me just die unknown
    No parade on the road
    No flowers on my grave
    She was here...she is gone...

    Let me just die simply
    Breathing in...breathing not...
    Shed a tear if you must
    And remember a smile
    A word or a gesture

    I lay no claim to fame
    For I'll die as I lived
    Poems in a drawer
    Music in my fingers
    And silence in the world.

    CPG - 1993

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  2. Un mot pour mes enfants.

    C'EST LE TEMPS DE PARTIR

    Pas trop de fleurs
    Pas trop de pleurs
    Quelques photos
    Et quelques mots
    Un peu de vin
    Bach et Chopin
    Réunion d'amis
    Adieu la vie

    Il faut vieillir
    Il faut mourir
    Bonjour repos
    Pour mes vieux os.

    CPG -1993

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  3. Merci de tout coeur, Claude, for not leaving these two poems in the drawer.

    Do I, after all, detect a certain affinity with Brel's thinking? :)

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