Monday, August 15, 2016

Velho


Estás morto, estás velho, estás cansado!
Como um suco de lágrimas pungidas
Ei-las, as rugas, as indefinidas
Noites do ser vencido e fatigado.

Envolve-te o crepúsculo gelado
Que vai soturno amortalhando as vidas
Ante o repouso em músicas gemidas
No fundo coração dilacerado.

A cabeça pendida de fadiga,
Sentes a morte taciturna e amiga,
Que os teus nervosos círculos governa.

Estás velho estás morto! Ó dor, delírio,
Alma despedaçada de martírio
Ó desespero da desgraça eterna.



- João da Cruz e Sousa

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

The trouble with feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers
Harsh-tongued and gaudy as a peacock
Hope is the thing with feathers
tHat itch inside one's heart

Hope is the thing with feathers
That gyres and gambols overhead
Her wings agains a black weather's
Oily rain and bulldozer's thread.

Oft she smiles, and oft she screams
I know she'll never rest
She'll jump at any sunbeams
She'll push your very best.

Hope is the thing with feathers
And I, for one, have none.