Our weather has been very, very changeable, alternating between showers, heavier rain, strong winds, and bursts of sun. Over several days the clouds were just unbelievably surreal. These made me recall my favorite French poet Charles Baudelaire's poem L’étranger (The Stranger), which reads as follows:Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis? Ton père, ta mère, ta soeur ou ton frère?
- Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni soeur, ni frère.
- Tes amis?
-Vous vous servez là d'une parole dont le sens m'est resté jusqu'à ce jour inconnu.
- Ta patrie?
- J'ignore sous quelle latitude elle est située.
- La beauté?- Je l'aimerais volontiers, déesse et immortelle.
- L'or?- Je le hais comme vous haïssez Dieu.
- Eh! qu'aimes-tu donc, extraordinaire étranger?
- J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent... là-bas... là-bas... les merveilleux nuages!
The Stranger
Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best? Your father,Your mother, your sister, or your brother?
-I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.
Your friends?
-Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known.
Your country?
-I do not know in what latitude it lies.
Beauty?
-I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal.
Gold?
-I hate it as you hate God.
Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger?
-I love the clouds... the clouds that pass... up there...up there... the wonderful clouds!
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23 comments:
It looks like a painting. Lovely shot!
Love the clouds and that blue sky is just awesome!
I could almost see the clouds moving wind blown across the sky. Absolutely love the poem.
J'adore cette photo et aussi poemes de C.B.
And I am even worse in writing comments in French than in English. :)
Is it allowed to write comments sometimes in Serbian?
Amazing shot.
Sydney - City and Suburbs
That's a real Skywatch Friday pic.
Outstanding. And your header pic looks like something along the Rhine River in Germany.
Have a great weekend.
Stunning cloud shot and the perfect poem! Marvelous post for the day! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Sylvia
stunning cloud renditions, although i beg to differ with baudelaire's poem except for the nuages which are really puffy and a sky that is really blue. ^0^
An extraordinary photograph! The depth of the colors and the clarity of the whites is superb!
Zahvalnost umjesto sudioništvo tvoj čudesan oblak pa nepraktične ideje.
Incredible capture of incredible clouds! Like your new mast head of Kalemegdan.
WOW! And also my fave poet (along with François Villon, of course). In so many ways, we are SO are the same wavelength—I love that!
quel ciel magnifique, on dirait une peinture
Fabulous Sky Watch post and text, Bibi!
Great sky photograph Bibi.
Costas
Wow! Dramatic sky passing by!
Happy Friday Bibi!
-Kim
That is such a strange but wonderful quotation. The dark shadows under the puffy white clouds make them look so dramatic!
Depth and color, lovely.
Oh this is wonderful Bibi, and your new header is a great shot !!!
Bon weekend,
V
Des nuages éternellement en harmonie avec le ciel! Une belle addition que ce poème de Beaudelaire.
What a wonderful poem, Bibi! Thank you for sharing!!
Reminds me of blue sky thinking! Great shot.
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I really really like that picture
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