Momentos de Poesia - Tu Fu

Restless Night

As bamboo chill drifts into the bedroom,
Moonlight fills every corner of our
Garden. Heavy dew beads and trickles.
Stars suddenly there, sparse, next aren't.

Fireflies in dark flight flash. Waking
Waterbirds begin calling, one to another.
All things caught between shield and sword,
All grief empty, the clear night passes.

Tu Fu
China

Momentos de Poesia - Mechtild of Magdeburg

I cannot Dance

I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me.
If you want me to leap with abandon,
You must intone the song.
Then I shall leap into love,
From love into knowledge,
From knowledge into enjoyment,
And from enjoyment beyond all human sensations.
There I want to remain, yet want also to circle higher still.

Mechtild of Magdeburg
Alemanha

Momentos de Poesia - Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Fim

Quando eu morrer batam em latas,
Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes,
Façam estalar no ar chicotes,
Chamem palhaços e acrobatas!

Que o meu caixão vá sobre um burro
Ajaezado à andaluza...
A um morto nada se recusa,
Eu quero por força ir de burro.

Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portugal

Momentos de Poesia - Swami Vivekananda

A Benediction

The mother's heart, the hero's will,
The sweetness of the southern breeze,
The sacred charm and strength that dwell
On Aryan altars, flaming, free;
All these be yours, and many more
No ancient soul could dream before --B
e thou to India's future son
The mistress, servant, friend in one.

Swami Vivekananda
Índia

Momentos de Poesia - Maya Angelou

A Conceit

Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand.

Maya Angelou
E.U.A.

Momentos de Poesia - António Nobre

A Poezia do Outomno

Noitinha. O sol, qual brigue em chammas, morre
Nos longes d'agoa... Ó tardes de novena!
Tardes de sonho em que a poezia escorre
E os bardos, a sonhar, molham a penna!

Ao longe, os rios de agoas prateadas
Por entre os verdes cannaviaes, esguios,
São como estradas liquidas, e as estradas
Ao luar, parecem verdadeiros rios!

Os choupos nus, tremendo, arripiadinhos,
O chale pedem a quem vae passando...
E nos seus leitos nupciaes, os ninhos,
As lavandiscas noivam piando, piando!

O orvalho cae do céu, como um unguento.
Abrem as boccas, aparando-o, os goivos...
E a larangeira, aos repellões do vento,
Deixa cair por terra a flor dos noivos.

E o orvalho cae... E, á falta d'agoa, rega
O val sem fruto, a terra arida e nua!
E o Padre-Oceano, lá de longe, prega
O seu Sermão de Lagrymas, á Lua!

Tardes de outomno! ó tardes de novena!
Outubro! Mez de Maio, na lareira!
Tardes...
Lá vem a Lua, gratiae plena,
Do convento dos céus, a eterna freira!

António Nobre
Portugal

Momentos de Poesia - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Road Goes Ever On

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inglaterra

Momentos de Poesia - Gabriela Mistral

I am Not Alone

The night, it is deserted
from the mountains to the sea.
But I, the one who rocks you,
I am not alone!

The sky, it is deserted
for the moon falls to the sea.
But I, the one who holds you,
I am not alone!

The world, it is deserted.
All flesh is sad you see.
But I, the one who hugs you,
I am not alone!

Gabriela Mistral
Chile

Momentos de Poesia - Álvaro de Campos

Cansaço

O que há em mim é sobretudo cansaço —
Não disto nem daquilo,
Nem sequer de tudo ou de nada:
Cansaço assim mesmo, ele mesmo,
Cansaço.

A subtileza das sensações inúteis,
As paixões violentas por coisa nenhuma,
Os amores intensos por o suposto em alguém,
Essas coisas todas —
Essas e o que falta nelas eternamente —;
Tudo isso faz um cansaço,
Este cansaço,
Cansaço.

Há sem dúvida quem ame o infinito,
Há sem dúvida quem deseje o impossível,
Há sem dúvida quem não queira nada —
Três tipos de idealistas, e eu nenhum deles:
Porque eu amo infinitamente o finito,
Porque eu desejo impossivelmente o possível,
Porque quero tudo, ou um pouco mais, se puder ser,
Ou até se não puder ser...

E o resultado?
Para eles a vida vivida ou sonhada,
Para eles o sonho sonhado ou vivido,
Para eles a média entre tudo e nada, isto é, isto...
Para mim só um grande, um profundo,
E, ah com que felicidade infecundo, cansaço,
Um supremíssimo cansaço,
Íssimo, íssimo, íssimo,
Cansaço...

Álvaro de Campos
Portugal

Momentos de Poesia - Octavio Paz

Between Going And Coming

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.

Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.

Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.

The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.

I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.

Octavio Paz
Tradução por Eliot Weinberger
México

Momentos de Poesia - T.S.Eliot

Stand on the highest Pavement

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
And I wonder how they should have been together!
I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.

T.S.Eliot
E.U.A.

Momentos de Poesia - Margaret Atwood

The Rest

The rest of us watch from beyond the fence
as the woman moves with her jagged stride
into her pain as if into a slow race.
We see her body in motion
but hear no sounds, or we hear
sounds but no language; or we know
it is not a language we know
yet. We can see her clearly
but for her it is running in black smoke.
The cluster of cells in her swelling
like porridge boiling, and bursting,
like grapes, we think. Or we think of
explosions in mud; but we know nothing.
All around us the trees
and the grasses light up with forgiveness,
so green and at this timeof the year healthy.
We would like to call something
out to her. Some form of cheering.
There is pain but no arrival at anything.

Margaret Atwood
Canadá