Absence

4 mixed voices
Poem by Paul Eluard
(2001)
Duration : 3’30
First performance on january 14th 2003, in the Blagnac’s church by the chamber choir Les Eléments conducted by Joël Suhubiette.
Publisher: Editions Jobert

Video clip

The poem :

My forehead against the glass like the watchmen of grief

Sky whose night I have surpassed

Plains so small in my open hands

In their double horizon inert indifferent

My forehead against the glass like the watchmen of grief

I look for you beyond all expectation

Beyond even myself

And no longer know loving you so

Which of us two is absent.

Paul Eluard

“Love, Poetry”

Original poem in french : clic here