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Fleurs du désert

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A collection of lyrical poems uses desert imagery—sand, wind, caravans, wells and night-blooming flowers—to meditate on transience, longing and endurance. Divided into two complementary sections, the pieces range from aphoristic counsels about resignation, hope and desire to intimate portraits of love, grief and memory. Recurrent motifs of crepuscule, travel and fragile beauty frame reflections on solitude, the cost of aspiration, and the tension between daring and prudence. The language alternates austere, stoic admonition and tender melancholic observation, portraying life as a sequence of brief joys amid inevitable loss.

III

Qui se fonde en sagesse affirme qu’il est vain
D’abandonner son cœur aux espérances folles.
Il dit que sitôt né, beau rêve, tu t’envoles
Et que ta volupté, gloire, est un triste vin.
Et, pendant que la nuit se prépare à descendre,
Il te trouve, ô sagesse, un âpre goût de cendre.