GHASEL THE FAVORITE FLOWER
It is the flower of memory, the flower of love, the flower of youth;
it is the one picked in the first days of the spring of life.
The name and features of a beloved person are associated with
the idea of a flower that will always remind you of it.
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For some it is rose, jasmine, lilac, heliotrope, verbena;
for others, periwinkle, violet or one, just, thinking.
For all, the memory of a wo/man is inseparable from that of a flower.
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The perfume of the favorite flower gives a kind of intoxication
that leaves the head and bears on the heart.
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His/her sight tears you away from the present; you live in the past,
you see again the narrow path where you both passed brushing
the bushes laden with dew, the stream that reflected his/her image;
you hear his./her voice, his/her sweet voice, calling you.
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At other times you say to yourself: It was the flower that my mother loved,
or which my sister used to adorn herself with.
And you think of your childhood,
of your mother who looks at you from above,
of your sister, so chaste, so pure, so beautiful,
that God took her to be one of her angels.
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Woe to them who have not felt his eyes wet with tears
at the sight of a certain flower!
S/He was neither a child nor a young person;
s/he had neither mother, nor sister,
nor betrothed; they never liked to live to the fullest.
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You wear the favorite flower to your buttonhole;
we suspend a branch at the bedside,
we send a bouquet to his/her dear friends.
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The favorite flower brings good luck.
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You must have your flower on the earth, and your star in heaven.
Beware of those who will laugh at this superstition.
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My favorite flower is jasmine.
While the flowers, I seem to feel something lively, sweet,
penetrating deep in my heart, a kind of well-being that disappears
when the jasmine begins to wilt.
It exists as an intimate union between me and jasmine.
It is true that it reminds me so many things! ...
But it is not my story that I want to tell you,
you know it, because this story is, also, yours.
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Favorite flower, sweet and charming flower whose name is whispered,
like that of a beloved woman, the heart that no longer undergoes
your mysterious influence is a heart withered forever.
S/He still beats, but he no longer throbs;
s/he lives, but s/he has stopped feeling.
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Keep your fragrance for me for a long time,
keep it forever, and write these words on my grave:
ONE LOVE, ONE FLOWER!
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Translated from french to English
"Les Fleurs Animées in English is 'The Animated Flowers"
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