Case d'Armons – Celebration, Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Firework of steel
How charming this illumination
Artifice of a fireworks maker
To mingle some grace with courage

Two rockets bursting
Rose explosion
Like two breasts being unclasped
Offering their tips insolently
HE KNEW HOW TO LOVE
What an epitaph

A poet in the forest
Watches with indifference
His revolver with the safety on
Roses dying of hope

He dreams of Saadi’s roses
And suddenly his head bows
For a rose tells him again
The soft curve of a hip

The air is full of a terrible alcohol
Filtered from half-closed stars
Shells caress the soft
Nocturnal perfume where you rest
Mortification of roses

Guillaume Apollinaire

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