À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

The true name or appellation

has mattered

not a whit;

thus known, it has semantically

conveyed

to the mind the playfulness and pert

prancing of the blue green waters,

even onomatopoeically

sounding right.

As it happened to be , its origination

could be Old Dutch for ‘Fried Landt

Flack’,meaning free flat land, yet one

cannot sense from this , the magic

of a scintillating seascape ,or even

mindscape,

with the undulating waves

like the heaving, pulsating motions

of the universe, and the imagination’s

dance.

The elation of childhood days

of a picnic

on these beaches

amidst the

swaying filao

trees

can be vibrantly

felt still, thinking

of Flic-en-Flac.

7 July 2017

Bio

Jeewan Ramlugun

This author, African Development expert and academic has published five collections of poems, with around 1,500 pieces, both locally and internationally, such as “Mother & Memories”, in Mauritius in 2023 and “Hornbeam Dreams”, in Odissa, India, the same year. Several of the poems he has authored have been published in magazines while others have often been read in England, for instance, “Teddington Summer Music” by Paul Alexander, actor, writer and filmmaker, at the Normansfield Theatre in 2016.