{"id":10411,"date":"2014-04-21T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/leo-ferre-poem-against-slave-trade-and-conquista.html"},"modified":"2021-06-25T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:56:20","slug":"leo-ferre-poem-against-slave-trade-and-conquista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/leo-ferre-poem-against-slave-trade-and-conquista.html","title":{"rendered":"The Murderers Of The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19138 size-full\" title=\"Premier plan : le sang coule  --- Arri\u00e8re plan : Repr\u00e9sentation des soutes d'un navire n\u00e9grier au Technikmuseum --- photo Manuel Maynal --- https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mmenal\/6619618883  ----  modifi\u00e9 par Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assassins-atlantiq-negrier-sang-sk-688po.jpg\" alt=\"assassins-atlantiq-negrier-sang-sk-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The terrible and cynical violence of the murderers of the Atlantic is visible as well in the Conquistadors than in their successors the slave traders. These shocking pages remain an open wound in the soul of sentient beings. L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9 proves it brilliantly. I suggest you read <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/madre-de-dios-poeme-leo-ferre-contre-conquista-negriers.html\">the original poem<\/a> which is much better than my poor translation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Madre De Dios<\/h4>\n<p><em>You awful murderers crossing the Atlantic <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Crazy slave traders with smeared torsos<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Your remorse is light and quiet with your stick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And fleets of gold that are sleeping far from Europe <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Deep in the heart of seas that regrets freeze\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gently swing their philanthropic yard and rope<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While you&#8217;re thinking Drowned in the adventure <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Of the bellies that you could not violate <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The gold bellies of these vessels growing mature<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ll take that stolen gold in my poetic night\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I will carve it as it should <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Azure bowsprit of blood lyric drawbar all right<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who will devoutly go to Madeleine at last<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Better than a singing\u00a0jewel sounding finger <\/em><br \/>\n<em>She will soon bent over the vigourous foremast<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You will be my galleon I will be your pirate<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I will approach you at close range <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Your thin laces will be a sail to my frigate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shuddering of love to the sextant of my race <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Drawn to sweet eagles of southerly wind <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Chained to the azure that is following my trace<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O sailors of the Race you stars of robberies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Galleons are plump and you reign <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Terribly in the underwater memories<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take the wind eagerly on my boat&#8217;s remembrance <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Rigged love and the rest of the watch <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Full of sky bursting with God and importance<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We will write the secret message of Atlantic <\/em><br \/>\n<em>These galleons from Spain and other places <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Boring bending with gold and with sailors&#8217; epic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>And we will throw down there all the curious<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9<br \/>\ntranslated by Xavier S\u00e9guin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21120 size-full\" title=\"L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9 dans un concert pour les 10 ans de Radio Libertaire en 1991  L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9 bei einem Konzert im Palais des Sports de Paris f\u00fcr Radio Libertaire, 1991 -  Von F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Anarchiste - F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Anarchiste, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=26613714\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/l\u00e9o_ferr\u00e9-RadioLibertaire-688po.jpg\" alt=\"l\u00e9o_ferr\u00e9-RadioLibertaire-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madre de Diosd, a poem by L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9 against the conquista and the slave trade<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2228],"tags":[1930,1932,1929,1928,256,435,1931],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35009,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/35009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}