Roaming planet

I took shape in the universe, and alighted here, on blue planet.
Have I been diverted by some misfortune, fooled by some illusion?
For in rest or in exaltation, emerge
other images, other feelings, other spaces, other impulses,
which bring to me the fugitive and moved perfumes of a remembered elsewhere.

I am seated astride here and elsewhere.
Everything here is stranger to me than elsewhere.
Here is submerged by clamours and amazements;
elsewhere is irrigated by friendship, scintillates from enthusiasm,
is shrouded in silence, and is patient ad infinitum.

Elsewhere and here are meeting in an intimate and secret haven.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Nymphs

Nymphs, women, I like to contemplate the radiance of your nudity, as fresh as birth, so modest, so shameless!

Welcome my kisses and my caresses, by turns soft and careful, by turns passionate and tender, according to the impulses of our cheerful passions.

Whom you invite in your residence, in the depths of water, disappears forever, says one... Why would he return from there?

Nymphs and Satyr - Bouguereau
Nymphs and Satyr
William Bouguereau
(1873)

Nymph with morning glory flowers - Lefèbvre
Nymph with morning glory flowers
Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre
(?)

Hylas and the Nymphs - Waterhouse
Hylas and the Nymphs
John William Waterhouse
(1896)

(Click on the images to enlarge them.)

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Thanks to Wikipedia for the Nymphs.

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