WAITING FOR MONET…

J’ai peint aujourd’hui au son de la musique:
Bordighera était en fête…et les échos m’arrivaient sous
les palmiers.

Claude Monet
Bordighera, 26 février 1884

Harmonies of colors and lights
that once
dazzled Monet.

We breathe
the fresh fragrances of spring
on this late April morning

antique roses and white magnolias
peach blossoms
palm trees and lemons

( les pêchers mêlés
aux palmiers, aux citronniers…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © Adel Gorgy 2009 Photograph The Taste of Morning after Monet (Poplars)
Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides # 75

Sudden, playful
the notes of a band
reach us
awaken distant emotions.

The brush
slips lightly
on canvas
and we stay here
to tell
once more
the sweet enchantment
of a timeless garden.

Lidia Chiarelli

Bordighera, Villa Pompeo Mariani,
April 25 2014