Miguel Torga

The Ancient of Days (God as an Architect)

William Blake (1794)

Livro de Horas

Aqui, diante de mim,
Eu, pecador, me confesso
De ser assim como sou.
Me confesso o bom e o mau
Que vão em leme da nau
Nesta deriva em que vou.

Me confesso
Possesso
Das virtudes teologais,
Que são três,
E dos pecados mortais
Que são sete,
Quando a terra não repete
Que são mais.

Me confesso
O dono das minhas horas.
O das facadas cegas e raivosas
E das ternuras lúcidas e mansas.
E de ser de qualquer modo
Andanças
Do mesmo todo.

Me confesso de ser charco
E luar de charco, à mistura.
De ser a corda do arco
Que atira setas acima
E abaixo da minha altura.

Me confesso de ser tudo
Que possa nascer em mim.
De ter raízes no chão
Desta minha condição.
Me confesso de Abel e de Caim.

Me confesso de ser Homem.
De ser o anjo caído
Do tal céu que Deus governa;
De ser o monstro saído
Do buraco mais fundo da caverna.

Me confesso de ser eu.
Eu, tal e qual como vim
Para dizer que sou eu
Aqui, diante de mim!

Miguel Torga

(Comemora-se hoje o centenário do nascimento de

Miguel Torga.)

"O homem é, por desgraça, uma solidão:
nascemos sós, vivemos sós e morremos sós."

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The Wardrobe Collection - Splash

(Raindrop splash and displacement of soil particles.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Splash

the illusion is that you are simply
reading this poem.
the reality is that this is
more than a
poem.
this is a beggar's knife.
this is a tulip.
this is a soldier marching
through Madrid.
this is you on your
death bed.
this is Li Po laughing
underground.
this is not a god-damned
poem.
this is a horse asleep.
a butterfly in
your brain.
this is the devil's
circus.
you are not reading this
on a page.
the page is reading
you.
feel it?
it's like a cobra. it's a hungry eagle circling the room.

this is not a poem. poems are dull,
they make you sleep.

these words force you
to a new
madness.

you have been blessed, you have been pushed into a
blinding area of
light.

the elephant dreams
with you
now.
the curve of space
bends and
laughs.

you can die now.
you can die now as
people were meant to
die:
great,
victorious,
hearing the music,
being the music,
roaring,
roaring,
roaring.

Charles Bukowski

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The Wardrobe Collection - Annabel Lee

(Image taken from the CD "The Silent Force" (2004),

by Within Temptation)

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

Para ler a tradução deste poema feita por Fernando Pessoa, clique aqui.

(Image taken from the CD "The Silent Force" (2004),

by Within Temptation)

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Perfect pictures for an imperfect world

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The Wardrobe Collection - If

Graffiti encontrado numa rua de Dallas

(Fotografia da Dallas Arts Revue)

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master,
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1910)

The Wardrobe Collection

Depois do sucesso da "Série Pessoa" (ver posts do mês de Julho), eis que outra nova série começa neste blog. Desta feita, trata-se de uma colectânea à qual decidi chamar "The Wardrobe Collection", e que não é mais do que isso: uma colecção de poemas que tenho carinhosamente "arquivados" na parte de dentro das portas do meu roupeiro e que, a partir de agora, vou partilhar convosco.

Espero que gostem destes poemas tanto como eu!

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Europe Vs. Italy

E nós? Seremos mais Europeus ou mais Italianos?


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Hey, you!

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As fontes

"Nympheas", Claude Monet

Um dia quebrarei todas as pontes
Que ligam o meu ser vivo e total,
À agitação do mundo irreal,
E calma subirei até às fontes.

Irei até às fontes onde mora
A plenitude, o límpido esplendor
Que me foi prometido em cada hora,
E na face incompleta do amor.

Irei beber a luz e o amanhecer
Irei beber a voz dessa promessa
Que às vezes como um voo me atravessa,
E nela cumprirei todo o meu ser.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

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Série Pessoa - Fernando Pessoa (ortónimo)

"La Méridienne", Vincent Van Gogh

(óleo sobre tela, 1889)

Ela canta, pobre ceifeira,
Julgando-se feliz talvez;
Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia
De alegre e anónima viuvez,

Ondula como um canto de ave
No ar limpo como um limiar,
E há curvas no enredo suave
Do som que ela tem a cantar.

Ouvi-la alegra e entristece,
Na sua voz há o campo e a lida,
E canta como se tivesse
Mais razões pra cantar que a vida.

Ah, canta, canta sem razão !
O que em mim sente 'stá pensando.
Derrama no meu coração a tua incerta voz ondeando !

Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu !
Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,
E a consciência disso !
Ó céu ! Ó campo ! Ó canção ! A ciência

Pesa tanto e a vida é tão breve !
Entrai por mim dentro ! Tornai
Minha alma a vossa sombra leve !
Depois, levando-me, passai !

Fernando Pessoa (1914)

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