To celebrate Rene Magritte's, one of my favorite artist, birthday and inspired by MoMA and a Tumblr blog that links Queen B's song lines to artworks, I have decided to unite my favorite artists and poets. The poem by Baratashvili (1841) is as if it written as a description to Magritte's The False Mirror painting.
Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928
Sky-Blue by Nikoloz Baratashvili (1841)
The azure blue, the heavenly hue,
The first created realm of blue;
And o'er its radiance divine
The first created realm of blue;
And o'er its radiance divine
My soul does pour its love sublime.
My heart that once with laughter glowed
Of grief, now bears a heavy load.
But yet it thrills and loves anew
To view again the sapphire blue.
I love to gaze on lovely eyes
That swim in azure from the skies;
The heavens lend this colour fair,
And leave a dream of gladness there.
Enamoured of the limpid sky,
My thoughts take wing to regions high,
And in that blue of liquid fire
In raptured ecstasy expire.
When I am dead no tears will flow
Upon my lonely grave below,
But from above the aerial blue
Will scatter o'er me tears of dew.
The mists about my tomb will wind
A veil of pearl with shadows twined,
But lured by sunbeams from on high
'Twill melt into the azure sky.
