Geranium

07.20.2015
Rembrandt-une

As with many flowers géraniums have many values which vary over time just like its colors but poets don’t mind! Robert Desnos was actually too free a poet and a man to remain in the official Surrealist Movement from which he was banned.

Dans un pot un géranium,
Un poisson dans l’aquarium.
Géranium et poisson rouge,
Si tu bouges, si tu bouges,
Tu n’auras pas de rhum,
Géranium, géranium,
Géranium et poisson rouge.

In a pot is a geranium
A fish in the aquarium,
Geranium and goldfish,
If you move, if you move,
You will get no rum,
Geranium, geranium,
Geranium and goldfish.

 

Robert Desnos, French Poet (1900 – 1945) and author of the book of poems, Chantefleurs from which this poem is from, said “it’s not poetry that must be freed but the poet who must be free” as he committed himself to the French Resistance.

 

Before summer diptyque had highlighted its Personal Fragrances which includes Géranium Odorata. The geranium flower is also in L’Eau – the very first diptyque Eau de Toilette created in 1968.