I.C.E. Club – Madagascar

From anywhere, like an echo,
A drum’s clatter sounds,
An accordion’s chord mounts,
A flute’s tune plays with my ear,
And women wearing lambas appear,
As the drum’s beats go.
Then a valiha’s strings sang,
Women dance, move their shoulders,
Shake their dresses’ bright colors,
They stop. They open umbrellas…
Turn round, parading their lambas
With that drum’s beats’ clang.
Suddenly all fall silent !
Deep voices come, [...]

Few years ago, on our former website, we had contributions – more precisely poems – from our members. Tough, when we decided to switch to Wordpress, we forgot to transfert all these good writings. Some of them are original works from the members themselves and others are from famous authors that they found good to [...]

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