dado potato
10-4-17, 9:37am
This day when the the moon is observed to be fat as a cake, traditional Chinese people celebrate the family, the harvest, and tasty moon cakes.
Last night coincidentally, I listened to "Seraph Brass", a quintet of women musicians, play an arrangement of Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune". They explained that Debussy was inspired by a poem written by Paul Verlaine in 1869.
Translation unfortunately wipes out the rhyme and meter, but I still like Verlaine's ideas.
The Light of the Moon
Your soul is a delicate landscape
where roam charming masquerades and peasant dances
playing the lute and dancing
and seeming almost sad
under their whimsical disguises.
While singing in a minor key
of victorious love and the life of ease
they don't seem to believe in their happiness,
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,
with the still light of the moon
sad and beautiful
which makes the birds in the trees to dream
and to sob with ecstasy
fountains,
the great slim fountains
among the marble statues.
Last night coincidentally, I listened to "Seraph Brass", a quintet of women musicians, play an arrangement of Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune". They explained that Debussy was inspired by a poem written by Paul Verlaine in 1869.
Translation unfortunately wipes out the rhyme and meter, but I still like Verlaine's ideas.
The Light of the Moon
Your soul is a delicate landscape
where roam charming masquerades and peasant dances
playing the lute and dancing
and seeming almost sad
under their whimsical disguises.
While singing in a minor key
of victorious love and the life of ease
they don't seem to believe in their happiness,
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,
with the still light of the moon
sad and beautiful
which makes the birds in the trees to dream
and to sob with ecstasy
fountains,
the great slim fountains
among the marble statues.