30 de agosto de 2012

Tiago Bettencourt - Tens que largar a mão ( novo video )



Amor à vista

A mulher que não há começa em ti
Começa em ti a sempre tão ausente
A sempre tão distante e tão aqui
Tão doente da partida e tão presente.

Começa em ti a sempre incomeçada
A que por nunca ser nunca perdi
A que era amor do amor: corpo de nada.
A mulher que não há começa em ti.

Começa em ti um tempo em que ajoelho
Tempo de amar ou templo: terra e mar.
Meus olhos deslumbrados com Açores

À vista: eu que sou Gonçalo Velho
Vivendo a glória extrema de chegar
Às tuas ilhas que direi de amores.

Manuel Alegre

11 de agosto de 2012






































Song For The Last Act


Now that I have your face by heart, I look
Less at its features than its darkening frame
Where quince and melon, yellow as young flame,
Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook.
Beyond, a garden, There, in insolent ease
The lead and marble figures watch the show
Of yet another summer loath to go
Although the scythes hang in the apple trees.

Now that I have your face by heart, I look.

Now that I have your voice by heart, I read
In the black chords upon a dulling page
Music that is not meant for music's cage,
Whose emblems mix with words that shake and bleed.
The staves are shuttled over with a stark
Unprinted silence. In a double dream
I must spell out the storm, the running stream.
The beat's too swift. The notes shift in the dark.

Now that I have your voice by heart, I read.

Now that I have your heart by heart, I see
The wharves with their great ships and architraves;
The rigging and the cargo and the slaves
On a strange beach under a broken sky.
O not departure, but a voyage done!
The bales stand on the stone; the anchor weeps
Its red rust downward, and the long vine creeps
Beside the salt herb, in the lengthening sun.

Now that I have your heart by heart, I see.
 

Louise Bogan