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20.12.07

You who never arrived

Krista Elrick, 2004 in http://www.photeye.com
You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of
the next moment. All the immense
images in me--the far-off, deeply-felt
landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and
unsuspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods--
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house--, and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon,--
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and,
startled, gave back my too-sudden image.
Who knows? Perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening...
Rainer Maria Rilke in http://www.poemhunter.com

16.12.07

Moon Girl

LUA ADVERSA
Tenho fases, como a lua
Fases de andar escondida,
fases de vir para a rua...
Perdição da minha vida!
Perdição da vida minha!
Tenho fases de ser tua,
tenho outras de ser sozinha.


Fases que vão e vêm,
no secreto calendário
que um astrólogo arbitrário
inventou para meu uso.


E roda a melancolia
seu interminável fuso!
Não me encontro com ninguém
(tenho fases como a lua...)
No dia de alguém ser meu
não é dia de eu ser sua...
E, quando chega esse dia,
o outro desapareceu
Cecília Meireles
Heyyoung Kim, 2000
http://www.photoeye.com/

Aprender...

Pouca sinceridade é uma coisa perigosa, e muita sinceridade é absolutamente fatal.Oscar Wilde