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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. — PAGES DU CARNET-NOIR

à André Lebey

I

La vie autour de toi mène sa farandole
Au son des tambourins joyeux et des hautbois,
Mais devant son ardeur tu restes sans parole,
Car tu ne comprends pas les choses que tu vois.
Hélas ! As-tu besoin, pauvre homme, de comprendre ?
Nul ne sait aujourd’hui les souffrances d’hier.
Il faut une âme forte et ton cœur est trop tendre
Pour affronter vivant les affres de l’enfer.