Case d’Armons – Echelon

Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Collection CalligrammesThemes WarPeriod 20th centuryPrint

Frogs and tree frogs
Toads and baby toads
Ascesis beneath the poplars and the ashes
The queen of the meadows is about to bloom
A little hut in the forest
Over there the wound is whiter

The Sky

Poppies
Flask with a golden neck
Death has been hanged
At the edge of the wood
Death has been hanged
And her lovely golden breasts
Show themselves one by one

They fire at airplanes
Verdun

The slowworm
The bag of tricks
The button kit

O ever-living rose
O France
Perfume the hopes of an army that pants

The Oriole sings

Isn’t that funny

At last a sparrowhawk’s feather

Guillaume Apollinaire

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