« sospir de flor »

Full text of the Catalan poem featured in the video:

«Damunt de tu, només les flors.
Eren com una ofrena blanca:
la llum que daven al teu cos
mai més seria de la branca;

tota una vida de perfum
amb el seu bes t'era donada.
Tu resplendies de la llum
per l'esguard clos atresorada.

Si hagués pogut ésser sospir
de flor! Donar-me, com un llir,
a tu, perque la meva vida

s'anés marcint sobre el teu pit.
I no saber mai més la nit,
que al teu costat fóra esvaïda.»

Josep Janés i Olivé (1913-1959); from his collection «Combat del somni» (Barcelona, Edicions de la Rosa dels Vents, 1937)

English translation of the poem:

«Lying upon you, like a white
Offering, there were flowers only.
From them your body drew the light,
Without them now the branch was lonely.

And as they gave their kiss to you,
Their life of fragrance was sent flowing.
From your closed eyes the light shone through:
You were resplendent, you were glowing.

Could I be but a flower's sigh
and, like a lily, give you my
own self, so that my very being

would fade away upon your breast
and never need again the rest
of night, that from your side is fleeing»

(English translation by Coby Lubliner; with emendations)

The video's Catalan title means, in English, "A Flower's Sigh" ♣
The photograph featured in the main segment of the video was taken on 10 April 2009 ♣
Of the three photographs featured in the credits segment, the first one portrays the composer Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893-1987), seated at the piano, with the poet Josep Janés leaning over — the Catalan authors of (respectively) the music and the lyrics featured in the video; ♣ the second photograph shows the bassoonist Stefano Canuti with the pianist Massimo Somenzi, the Italian performers of Mompou's music featured in the video; ♣ the final image is that of the poet Josep Janés i Olivé alone ♣

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