Lisa left flowers for you...
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Palavras lidas #611
Romantics
by Lisel Mueller
Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann
The modern biographers worry
"how far it went," their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly,
his guardian angel, beloved friend.
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree of love,
forgetting how softly Eros walked
in the nineteenth century, how a hand
held overlong or a gaze anchored
in someone's eyes could unseat a heart,
and nuances of address, not known
in our egalitarian language
could make the redolent air
tremble and shimmer with the heat
of possibility. Each time I hear
the Intermezzi, sad
and lavish in their tenderness,
I imagine the two of them
sitting in a garden
among late-blooming roses
and dark cascades of leaves,
letting the landscape speak for them,
leaving nothing to overhear.
by Lisel Mueller
Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann
The modern biographers worry
"how far it went," their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly,
his guardian angel, beloved friend.
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree of love,
forgetting how softly Eros walked
in the nineteenth century, how a hand
held overlong or a gaze anchored
in someone's eyes could unseat a heart,
and nuances of address, not known
in our egalitarian language
could make the redolent air
tremble and shimmer with the heat
of possibility. Each time I hear
the Intermezzi, sad
and lavish in their tenderness,
I imagine the two of them
sitting in a garden
among late-blooming roses
and dark cascades of leaves,
letting the landscape speak for them,
leaving nothing to overhear.
Etiquetas:
Palavras lidas,
Poesia-Poetry
10 janeiro, 2025
Ditto #608
It's odd but true that there really is consolation from sad poems, and it's hard to know how that happens. There is the pleasure of the thing itself, the pleasure of the poem, and somehow it works against sadness.
--Jane Kenyon
09 janeiro, 2025
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Parece que estou a ouvir #486
by Carminho
Sete saias de balão
Levas pois então para a romaria
Sete pecados mortais
Que levando vais, todos à porfia
Cada qual da sua cor
Seja aonde for que tu vás com elas
Com as sete a saltitar
Conforme o pisar das tuas chinelas
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Com sete te vi falar
E a todos dar lenços de cambraia
Será que te dá prazer
Sete noivos ter, um por cada saia?
Segundo a voz da razão
Fazer coleção não dá resultado
O melhor é escolher um
E não querer nenhum mais p'ra namorado
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Mais um conselho te dou
Enquanto aqui estou, não lhes dês mais roda
E não as encurtes mais
Senão quando sais sai a aldeia toda
Um palmo acima da pé
P'ra mostrar ao Zé onde acaba a meia
Mas pelo joelho não
Que faz confusão e é coisa feia
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Sete saias de balão
Levas pois então para a romaria
Sete pecados mortais
Que levando vais, todos à porfia
Cada qual da sua cor
Seja aonde for que tu vás com elas
Com as sete a saltitar
Conforme o pisar das tuas chinelas
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Com sete te vi falar
E a todos dar lenços de cambraia
Será que te dá prazer
Sete noivos ter, um por cada saia?
Segundo a voz da razão
Fazer coleção não dá resultado
O melhor é escolher um
E não querer nenhum mais p'ra namorado
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Mais um conselho te dou
Enquanto aqui estou, não lhes dês mais roda
E não as encurtes mais
Senão quando sais sai a aldeia toda
Um palmo acima da pé
P'ra mostrar ao Zé onde acaba a meia
Mas pelo joelho não
Que faz confusão e é coisa feia
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Sete saias trazes, a cair da anca
E a blusa branca que te vai mesmo a matar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
Então os rapazes só pedem que caias
P'ra contar as saias sem que estejas a bailar
06 janeiro, 2025
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Coisas bonitas #182
Em Cádiz, para além do presépio,
as igrejas teem o Menino Jesus exposto frente ao altar
deitado apenas numa bonita toalha bordada
04 janeiro, 2025
Pedaços de Cádiz
Cádiz tem uma interessante geografia de península em península
pelo que a frente de mar é praticamente contínua
destacando-se a catedral na paisagem.
Muito fácil é a subida à torre (em rampa) e lá de cima
vêem-se os terraços das casas, não muito diferentes das algarvias.Na praça da catedral há palmeiras
e dentro um presépio com o menino Jesus dormindo.
e um fantástico pôr-do-sol a caminho do Forte de S. Sebastião.
03 janeiro, 2025
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Palavras lidas #610
What Followed Your Birth
by Hal Sirowitz
You might not like being reminded
of your birthday, Father said,
but your mother & I do. Your
birth was a happy occasion.
What followed was both good
& bad. That was to be expected,
but what we didn't expect was
that you'd be the last of your friends
to get a job, which you still haven't
gotten yet. It just took you longer
to get started. You had to go back
to school. That wouldn't have been so bad
if you were learning something, but
after all these years to still not know
what you want for a present doesn't
speak well for education.
by Hal Sirowitz
You might not like being reminded
of your birthday, Father said,
but your mother & I do. Your
birth was a happy occasion.
What followed was both good
& bad. That was to be expected,
but what we didn't expect was
that you'd be the last of your friends
to get a job, which you still haven't
gotten yet. It just took you longer
to get started. You had to go back
to school. That wouldn't have been so bad
if you were learning something, but
after all these years to still not know
what you want for a present doesn't
speak well for education.
Etiquetas:
Palavras lidas,
Poesia-Poetry
01 janeiro, 2025
Ditto #607
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
--Margaret Wise Brown
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Parece que estou a ouvir #485
Marisa Monte
No varal das 22 fadas nuas lourinhas
Fostes besouro Maria
E a aba do Pierrot descosturou na bainha
Farinhar bem, derramar a canção
Revirar trens, louco mover paixão
Nas direções, programado e emoldurado
Esperarei romântico
Sou a pessoa Maria
Na água quente e boa gente tua Maria
Voa quem voa Maria
E a alma sempre boa sempre vou à Maria
Farinhar bem, derramar a canção
Revirar trens, louco mover paixão
Nas direções, programado e emoldurado
Esperarei romântico
'Tou vitimado no profundo poço
Na poça do mundo
Do céu amor vai chover
Tua pessoa Maria
Mesmo que doa Maria
Tua pessoa Maria
Mesmo que doa Maria
Farinhar bem, derramar a canção
Revirar trens, louco mover paixão
Nas direções, programado e emoldurado
Esperarei romântico
'Tou vitimado no profundo poço
Na poça do mundo
Do céu amor vai chover
Tua pessoa Maria
Mesmo que doa Maria
Tua pessoa Maria
Mesmo que doa Maria
Maria, Maria, Maria
Maria, Maria, Maria
26 dezembro, 2024
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Espantos #690
The face of wonder: who said what, when and where?
A cara do espanto: quem disse o quê, quando e onde?
22 dezembro, 2024
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Palavras lidas #609
Anniversary
by Davi Walders
That you and I, I and you,
this twenty-fifth year after
you stamped your foot, shattered
the glass, and friends, so many dead
or forgotten, applauded in a ballroom
long abandoned, twenty-five years
of Monday good-byes, monthly wars
with stacks of bills, bags of garbage,
frozen gutters, nights filled
with pink medicines, fevered cheeks
on shoulders, the other hand reaching
for the pediatrician's call, termites
chewing, and hours waiting
for the door to open, holding
our own daughter's head vomiting
beer into our own leaking toilet,
that now, as mirrors mark the descent
of breasts, the tub catches silvered
pubic hair and our eyes wear pouches
and hoods, as though expecting rain,
that you and I could smell the salt
of each other, coming together after
long absence, silent, still, staring up
at the darkening ceiling, naked in a house
with empty, orderly bedrooms, the last
of dead roses and discarded boyfriends
tossed out, your hand touching mine,
our breathing slowing,
the wonder of it all.
by Davi Walders
That you and I, I and you,
this twenty-fifth year after
you stamped your foot, shattered
the glass, and friends, so many dead
or forgotten, applauded in a ballroom
long abandoned, twenty-five years
of Monday good-byes, monthly wars
with stacks of bills, bags of garbage,
frozen gutters, nights filled
with pink medicines, fevered cheeks
on shoulders, the other hand reaching
for the pediatrician's call, termites
chewing, and hours waiting
for the door to open, holding
our own daughter's head vomiting
beer into our own leaking toilet,
that now, as mirrors mark the descent
of breasts, the tub catches silvered
pubic hair and our eyes wear pouches
and hoods, as though expecting rain,
that you and I could smell the salt
of each other, coming together after
long absence, silent, still, staring up
at the darkening ceiling, naked in a house
with empty, orderly bedrooms, the last
of dead roses and discarded boyfriends
tossed out, your hand touching mine,
our breathing slowing,
the wonder of it all.
Etiquetas:
Palavras lidas,
Poesia-Poetry
20 dezembro, 2024
Ditto #606
Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning — a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
--Edna Ferber
--Edna Ferber
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Parece que estou a ouvir #484
In the Bleak Midwinter
poem by Christina Rossetti
music by Gustav Holst
n the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom Angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom Angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.
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