819 | PEACE DOVE

Painting by Pablo Picasso

PEACE DOVE

a poem for Christmas

Behind the gentle ripples of the sea

the dawning day paints

on the canvas of the horizon

the most beautiful images,

And the wind,

once rough and wild,

now gently caresses

the green boughs of the trees.

A bird with white wings

flies loudly flapping by

—but where to, it doesn’t know.

Germain Droogenbroodt

Translation by the author and Stanley Barkan

from “Fragile Balance” – “Frágil Equilibrio”
POINT-Boekenplan, Maastricht 2025 &
Notebook poiesis, Chile 2025