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L'Arc-en-Ciel

Chapter 31: NOVEMBRE
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A collection of lyrical poems portraying quiet domestic and rural scenes, memory, and intimate portraits. The poems move between garden and household, evoking summer heat, slow rhythms of pastoral life, and close observations of people and ancestral likenesses. Themes include nostalgia, subdued sensuality, the passage of time, and small consolations of everyday routine; images of fountains, evening, portraits, and simple pleasures recur. Tone ranges from contemplative melancholy to restrained affection, often addressing solitude, inherited ties, and the delicate border between remembrance and forgetting.

NOVEMBRE

Mollement, tristement, l’averse bat la plaine,
Son fluide réseau tient l’horizon captif,
La feuille morte abonde en la morte fontaine,
Le tourtereau mouillé roucoule un chant plaintif.
Novembre, noir fourrier de l’hiver, quand la face
De chacun de tes jours se montre à mes carreaux,
Je sens mon cœur se fondre, et méprise l’audace,
Et vais goûter l’espoir aux portes des tombeaux.