27/09/2013

Here is the Sun

Locals asked me to take a photo of them 

"Voici le Soleil
Qui fait tendre la poitrine des vierges
Qui fait sourire sur les bancs verts les vieillards
Qui réveillerait les morts sous une terre maternelle."  
- excerpt from Aux Tirailleurs sénégalais morts pour la France by Léopold Sédar Senghor, a famous Senegalese poet

"Here is the Sun
That makes virgins’ chests stick out
That makes old men smile on benches
That would awaken the dead under a maternal earth."
- translated exerpt  Aux Tirailleurs sénégalais morts pour la France by Léopold Sédar Senghor

2 comments:

  1. The poem and the pic are bootfiful! What camera are you using?

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    1. Not a very good one I'm afraid, sorry. My DSLR is broken. I'm trying my best to get nice photos though.

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