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Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
Trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera.

Salvatore Quasimodo,Ed è subito sera

A HISTÓRIA DE UMA HISTÓRIA



Era uma vez uma história

acabava antes de começar
e começava depois do fim

os seus heróis entravam nela
depois de terem morrido
e abandonavam-na
antes de nascerem

os seus heróis falavam
de um certo mundo e de um certo céu
diziam toda a espécie de coisas

só não diziam
o que eles próprios não sabiam
que eram apenas heróis de uma história

de uma história que acaba
antes de começar

e começa
antes de acabar


Ted Hughes, O Fazer da Poesia (tradução de Helder Moura Pereira)
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Bluebird


there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?


Charles Bukowski

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Tempo


Não sei se te nomeie ou nomeie o vento,
isto que passa
e procura os outros lugares onde o pólen cai.
Talvez uma colmeia confie ao seu mel o que
ficou de um ano
em que a tempestade não se fez ouvir sobre
as corolas.
O que viste antes de Setembro perdeu-se,
apagou-se,
afastou-se sem dizer nada,
como os barcos que pouco a pouco se
afastaram da nossa vida,
calados e brancos,
com as suas gaivotas de asas fechadas,
envelhecendo lado a lado, sobre o convés.

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José Agostinho Baptista

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Words For Departure
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1
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.

When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,

The window-sills were wet from rain in the night,

Birds scattered and settled over chimneypots

As among grotesque trees.

Nothing was accepted, nothing looked beyond.

Slight-voiced bells separated hour from hour,

The afternoon sifted coolness

And people drew together in streets becoming deserted.

There was a moon, and light in a shop-front,

And dusk falling like precipitous water.

Hand clasped hand

Forehead still bowed to forehead--

Nothing was lost, nothing possessed

There was no gift nor denial.

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2

I have remembered you.

You were not the town visited once,

Nor the road falling behind running feet.

You were as awkward as flesh

And lighter than frost or ashes.

You were the rind,

And the white-juiced apple,

The song, and the words waiting for music.

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3

You have learned the beginning;

Go from mine to the other.

Be together; eat, dance, despair,

Sleep, be threatened, endure.

You will know the way of that.

But at the end, be insolent;

Be absurd--strike the thing short off;

Be mad--only do not let talk

Wear the bloom from silence.

And go away without fire or lantern

Let there be some uncertainty about your departure.

.

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Louise Bogan

LBLouise Bogan

Homenagem a Cesário Verde

Aos pés do burro que olhava para o mar
depois do bolo rei comeram-se sardinhas
com as sardinhas um pouco de goiabada
e depois do pudim, para um último cigarro
um feijão branco em sangue e rolas cozidas

Pouco depois cada qual procurou
com cada um o poente que convinha.
Chegou a noite e foram todos para casa ler Cesário Verde
Que ainda há passeios ainda há poetas cá no país!

Mário Cesariny, Pena Capital
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Dejo correr la sangre de las manos.

Acostado en la cama la examino.

Las sábanas la sorben dulcemente

con la quieta avidez de su blancura.

Brota incesantemente. A borbotones.

Tibia y curiosa asoma a mis muñecas

y escapa presurosa de mis manos.

Son manos de vencido. Ellas debían

coger la gloria, amor, coger dinero.

Un día las creí capaces de ello.

Pero nada aprehendieron. No eran hábiles.

O el empeño excedió su exigua fuerza.

Pobres manos humildes y vacías.

Tiemblan un poco. Tiemblan asustadas.

Asustadas y débiles parecen

pedir excusas porque son mediocres.

Les sonrío a mis manos. Las levanto

y las uno. Las siento desvalidas.

Y atisbo como repta sigiloso

ese zumo tan rojo de la vida.

José María Fonollosa, Destrucción de la mañana

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Nos mains au jardin

Nous avons eu cette idée
de planter nos mains au jardin

Branches des dix doigts
Petits arbres d'ossements
Chère plate-bande.

Tout le jour
Nous avons attendu l'oiseau roux
Et les feuilles fraîches
A nos ongles polis.

Nul oiseau
Nul printemps
Ne se sont pris au piège de nos mains coupées.

Pour une seule fleur
Une seule minuscule étoile de couleur
Un seul vol d'aile calme
Pour une seule note pure
Répétée trois fois.

Il faudra la saison prochaine
Et nos mains fondues comme l'eau.

Anne Hébert, Poèmes

The Old Stoic

Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn;
And lust of fame was but a dream
That vanish'd with the morn:

And if I pray, the only prayer
That moves my lips for me
Is, "Leave the heart that now I bear,
And give me liberty!"

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,
'Tis all that I implore:
In life and death a chainless soul,
With courage to endure.

Emily Brontë

Beatrix Potter

http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/cute-trix-the-art-and-stories-of-beatrix-potter/

[II]

Todo amor es fantasía;
él inventa el año, el día,
la hora y su melodía;
inventa el amante y, más,
la amada. No prueba nada,
contra el amor, que la amada
no haya existido jamás.



Antonio Machado,"Otras Canciones a Guiomar"

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The Far Side Of Your Moon

The far side of your moon is black,

And glorious grows the vine;

Ask anything of me you lack,

But only what is mine.

Yours is the great wheel of the sun

And yours the unclouded sky;

Then take my stars, take every one

But wear them openly.

Walking in splendor through the plain

For all the world to see,

Since none alive shall view again

The match of you and me.

Robert Graves

Memento


Like a reminder of this life
of trams, sun, sparrows,
and the flighty uncontrolledness
of streams leaping like thermometers,
and because ducks are quacking somewhere
above the crackling of the last, paper-thin ice,
and because children are crying bitterly
(remember children's lives are so sweet!)
and because in the drunken, shimmering starlight
the new moon whoops it up,
and a stocking crackles a bit at the knee,
gold in itself and tinged by the sun,
like a reminder of life,
and because there is resin on tree trunks,
and because I was madly mistaken i
n thinking that my life was over,
like a reminder of my life -
you entered into me on stockinged feet.
You entered - neither too late nor too early -
at exactly the right time, as my very own,
and with a smile, uprooted me
from memories, as from a grave.
And I, once again whirling among
the painted horses, gladly exchange,
for one reminder of life, all its memories.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Barefoot

We took off our shoes
In the middle of the hot city.
And we looked so loose,
Like newborn and pretty.
With the same speed, if we could
Free our thoughts for a while
From their heavy boots —
It would be easier, mile after mile,
To leap barefoot into childhood.

Abraham Sutzkever
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To John Clare

Well, honest John, how fare you now at home?
The spring is come, and birds are building nests;
The old cock-robin to the sty is come,
With olive feathers and its ruddy breast;
And the old cock, with wattles and red comb,
Struts with the hens, and seems to like some best,
Then crows, and looks about for little crumbs,
Swept out by little folks an hour ago;
The pigs sleep in the sty; the bookman comes--
The little boy lets home-close nesting go,
And pockets tops and taws, where daisies blow,
To look at the new number just laid down,
With lots of pictures, and good stories too,
And Jack the Giant-killer's high renown.

John Clare

Amedeo Modigliani

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Marc Chagall, Aleko

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Frida Kahlo, Raíces

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Give Me Back My Rags #11

I've wiped your face off my face

Ripped your shadow off my shadow

Leveled the hills in you

Turned your plains into hills

Set your seasons quarreling

Turned all the ends of the world from you

Wrapped the path of my life around you

My impenetrable my impossible path

Just try to meet me now

Vasko Popa

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HAVING A COKE WITH YOU

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully
as the horse
it seems they were all cheated of some marvellous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it


Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems