Flashes of the Shots – Swarm of Flies, Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Collection CalligrammesThemes WarPeriod 20th century

A horseman rides across the plain
The young girl thinks of him alone
And that fleet at Mytilene
The wire is there that shines and shone

As they were picking the burning rose
Their eyes all at once bloomed in flower
But what sun the wandering mouth knows
To which the mouth had smiled that hour.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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