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poems from the dome
These poems featured in a special meridian-line display at the Millennium Dome exhibition, Greenwich, UK.

Demain
by Lazoumou Sèni, 1957, Burkina Faso

Demain
Nous irons tous
Sur les rayons du soleil
Célébrer le lever du jour
Et face au levant
Oindre le silence
Pour rappeler l'anniversaire de la Vie
Nous monterons les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel
Afin que reposent non pas en paix
Mais en prières
Sous la terre cette terre
Sur le visage des écrans
Dans les livres
Les combattants du Front de l'Amour


Tomorrow

Tomorrow
All of us will
Travel along the rays of the sun
To celebrate daybreak
And facing the dawn
Shall anoint silence
To recall the birthday of life
We shall climb the colours of the rainbow
So that the Army of Love
Rest not in peace
But in our prayers
Beneath the world, this earth
In the pages of newspapers
Projected on screens
Or speaking to us thorugh books.

translation by Robert Fraser

dome poems