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poems
from the dome
These poems featured in a
special meridian-line display at the Millennium Dome exhibition, Greenwich, UK.
La Marque
by Shaïda Zarumey, 1941, Mali
Sur quatre pétales de la fleur brune et rouge
Que tu tenais lovée dans ta main Sultan
Tu as gravé en les ciselant
De la pointe de ton crayon
Les quinze lettres de ton nom
Sur les quatre pétales de la fleur brune et rouge
Que tu tenais ovée dans ta main
Tu as gravé à vif ton nom pur l'éternité.
The Mark
On the four petals of that brown and red flower
You hold coiled in your palm Sultan
You have inscribed with a pencil's point
The fifteen letters of your name
On the petals of that brown and red flower
You hold egg-like in your palm
You have sketched your name for ever more.
translated
by Robert Fraser
dome
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