Flic-en-Flac

Jeewan Ramlugun

Written on 7th July 2017

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 have been Old Dutch for ‘Fried Landt

Flack’,meaning free flat land, yet one

would not sense from this , the magic

of a scintillating seascape ,or even mindscape,

with the rhythmic , cadential whorls of waves,

the heaving, pulsating motions

of the universe, and the imagination’s dances,

the elation of childhood days of picnics

on these beaches

amidst the swaying filao trees

being vibrantly felt still, thinking of Flic-en-Flac.

Jeewan Ramlugun BSc. MSc. CFCIPD FCMI FRSA.

Poet, Academic Researcher/Writer ,African Development Advisor.

Poetry Publications:

Wellsprings: Poems of Life & Nature( 323 pages, UK, 2010).

Poetry from Paradise ( 108 pages, Mauritius, 2010).

Bushy Park: A Collection of Poems( 221 pages, UK, 2015).

Mother & Memories( 110 pages, Mauritius,2022).

Hornbeam Dreams: A Collection of Poems( 182 pages, India, 2023).