Mon poème en anglais "Roses"

Sur la photo: J'écris mon roman dans un café au quartier latin.


"Roses" un de mes poèmes en anglais va être publié dans une anthologie aux USA.
Voilà ce que l'on m'a écrit à ce propos:
A personal note from the desk of:

Howard Ely, Managing Editor

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Dear Suzanne,

A few weeks ago, we notified you that "Roses" received the prestigious Editor's Choice Award. We receive thousands of poems every week and approximately 12% of all entries receive this desired award. Your editor, along with the selection committee, chose winners based on the essential elements of poetry: imagery, perspective, discourse, rhythm, diction, language, subject matter, structure, etc. These basic elements of a poem, as established by university and college professors, are set forth in our internal judging guidelines. Your poem in particular was one of special interest to the judges, and therefore was selected for this coveted award. Now that the first phase of judging is complete, your poem will enter the next round, becoming eligible for the $10,000.00 Annual Grand Prize that will be awarded in January 2008.

Suzanne, you should be proud of your accomplishment. Because of inspirational poems like yours, we are doing something that has never been done before. We are publishing an anthology that will include poetry masters from the past along with contemporary poets . . . The Little Black Book of Poetry: Past Masters & Contemporary Artists.

We've already chosen some famous poets, such as Yeats, Dickinson, Whitman, and Wordsworth, but there are so many more to choose. Selecting quality contemporary poetry is a challenge. With your permission, I'd like to include "Roses" as one of the contemporary poems. Please complete our online Artist's Release Form as soon as possible so that you can be included in this unique publication. We also request that you please include your biography, which will appear on the page opposite your poem. There is a nominal typesetting fee for this service.

Et voici le poème, mais je l'ai déjà présenté sur mon blog:


Roses
Red roses
And yellow ones
How proud
Have you become
When you look at me
And laugh
On my turn
I must smile
I would like to be as happy
As you are
My thoughts are flying
So far
Do you know
My dear flowers
Growing on my way
That life
For everyone
Is going away

Suzanne Palasti

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