diliemma du hérisson / Hedghog's Dilemma

The white ash falls from God's cigarette.

The white ash falls from God's cigarette,

erasing all His green with it.

Erasing all His green with it.

From God's green ash, all the white

with it falls, erasing his cigarette.

Cold ash, draw the hedgehog's close.

Cold ash, draw the hedgehog's close.

The thorny creatures huddle close.

The thorny creatures huddle close.

The creatures ash. The hedgehogs draw.

Close, close, cold, thorny huddle.

Desperate for warmth, the prick each other.

Desperate for warmth, the prick each other,

scatter and come back together.

Scatter and come back together.

Together, for warmth and each other,

prick, scatter. Desperate, they come back.

Draw green hedgehogs and each thorny Falls.

They close together, creatures desperate for the cigarette.

Huddle from the cold warmth close.

The other? Ash.

Scatter his white ash. Come back with it.

God: all-erasing prick.

This written as a paradelle, a form conceived by Billy Collins. It's a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and six lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines, and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from the preceding stanzas and only those words.

Poem by /

poème par

K. Hoff

Cet écrit comme un paradelle, une forme conçu par Collins Bile. Le c'est un poème de quatre strophes à six lignes dans lesquelles les premières et deuxièmes lignes, de même que le tiers et les quatrièmes lignes du premier trois strophes, doivent être identiques. Le cinquième et à six lignes, qui résout traditionnellement ces strophes, doit utiliser tous les mots des lignes précédentes, et seulement ces mots. De même, la strophe finale doit utiliser chaque mot des strophes précédentes et seulement ces mots.