Acquainted with the Night
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
- Robert Frost
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau -
Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 2003
26.9.07
25.9.07
Yes Yes
when God created love he didn't help most
when God created dogs He didn't help dogs
when God created plants that was average
when God created hate we had a standard utility
when God created me He created me
when God created the monkey He was asleep
when He created the giraffe He was drunk
when He created narcotics He was high
and when He created suicide He was low
when He created you lying in bed
He knew what He was doing
He was drunk and He was high
and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time
He made some mistakes
but when He created you lying in bed
He came all over His Blessed Universe.
- Charles Bukowski
when God created love he didn't help most
when God created dogs He didn't help dogs
when God created plants that was average
when God created hate we had a standard utility
when God created me He created me
when God created the monkey He was asleep
when He created the giraffe He was drunk
when He created narcotics He was high
and when He created suicide He was low
when He created you lying in bed
He knew what He was doing
He was drunk and He was high
and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time
He made some mistakes
but when He created you lying in bed
He came all over His Blessed Universe.
- Charles Bukowski
24.9.07
Reconhecimento à Loucura
Já alguém sentiu a loucura
vestir de repente o nosso corpo?
Já.
E tomar forma de objectos?
Sim.
E acender relâmpagos no pensamento
Também.
E às vezes parece ser o fim?
Exactamente.
Como o cavalo do soneto de Ângelo de Lima?
Tal e qual.
E depois mostrar-nos o que há-de vir
muito melhor do que está?
E dar-nos a cheirar uma cor
que nos faz seguir viagem
sem paragem
nem resignação?
E sentirmo-nos empurrados pelos rins
na aula de descer abismos
e fazer dos abismos descidas de recreio
e covas de encher novidade?
E de uns fazer gigantes
e de outros alienados?
E fazer frente ao impossível
atrevidamente
e ganhar-lhe, e ganhar-lhe
a ponto do impossível ficar possível?
E quando tudo parece perfeito
poder-se ir ainda mais além?
E isto de desencantar vidas
aos que julgam que a vida é só uma?
E isto de haver sempre ainda mais uma maneira pra tudo?
Tu só, loucura, és capaz de transformar
o mundo tantas vezes quantas sejam necessárias para olhos individuais.
Só tu és capaz de fazer que tenham razão
tantas razões que hão-de viver juntas.
Tudo, excepto tu, é rotina peganhenta.
Só tu tens asas para dar
a quem tas vier buscar.
- José de Almada Negreiros
Já alguém sentiu a loucura
vestir de repente o nosso corpo?
Já.
E tomar forma de objectos?
Sim.
E acender relâmpagos no pensamento
Também.
E às vezes parece ser o fim?
Exactamente.
Como o cavalo do soneto de Ângelo de Lima?
Tal e qual.
E depois mostrar-nos o que há-de vir
muito melhor do que está?
E dar-nos a cheirar uma cor
que nos faz seguir viagem
sem paragem
nem resignação?
E sentirmo-nos empurrados pelos rins
na aula de descer abismos
e fazer dos abismos descidas de recreio
e covas de encher novidade?
E de uns fazer gigantes
e de outros alienados?
E fazer frente ao impossível
atrevidamente
e ganhar-lhe, e ganhar-lhe
a ponto do impossível ficar possível?
E quando tudo parece perfeito
poder-se ir ainda mais além?
E isto de desencantar vidas
aos que julgam que a vida é só uma?
E isto de haver sempre ainda mais uma maneira pra tudo?
Tu só, loucura, és capaz de transformar
o mundo tantas vezes quantas sejam necessárias para olhos individuais.
Só tu és capaz de fazer que tenham razão
tantas razões que hão-de viver juntas.
Tudo, excepto tu, é rotina peganhenta.
Só tu tens asas para dar
a quem tas vier buscar.
- José de Almada Negreiros
Rakkaus on lepo.
Oikeastaan ainoa lepo mitä ihmisellä on.
Eikä mikään ole niin rasittavaa.
Ja se on vapautta.
Eikä kuitenkaan mikään sido niin paljon.
Siinä on rakkauden paradoksi.
Ilman rakkautta ihminen kantaa kuin taakkaa
koko ajan ja on yksinäisyytensä vanki,
niin vapaa kuin yksin ollessaan onkin.
Love is rest.
Actually, the only rest humans have.
And nothing is as exhausting.
And it is freedom.
And yet, nothing binds us as securely.
Therein lies love's paradox.
Without love, it is as if one carried a burden
All the time and was prisoner to his loneliness,
No matter how free he is in his aloneness.
- Eeva Kilpi -
(amo-te tanto, ruça linda)
Oikeastaan ainoa lepo mitä ihmisellä on.
Eikä mikään ole niin rasittavaa.
Ja se on vapautta.
Eikä kuitenkaan mikään sido niin paljon.
Siinä on rakkauden paradoksi.
Ilman rakkautta ihminen kantaa kuin taakkaa
koko ajan ja on yksinäisyytensä vanki,
niin vapaa kuin yksin ollessaan onkin.
Love is rest.
Actually, the only rest humans have.
And nothing is as exhausting.
And it is freedom.
And yet, nothing binds us as securely.
Therein lies love's paradox.
Without love, it is as if one carried a burden
All the time and was prisoner to his loneliness,
No matter how free he is in his aloneness.
- Eeva Kilpi -
(amo-te tanto, ruça linda)

Margareth Thatcher on TV
Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing
It seems strange that she should be offended
The same orders are given by her
I've said this before now
You said I was childish and you'll say it now
"Remember what I told you
If they hated me they will hate you"
England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds
And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
I don't want him to be aware that there's
Any such thing as grieving
Young mother down at Smithfield
5 am, looking for food for her kids
In her arms she holds three cold babies
And the first word that they learned was "please"
These are dangerous days
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave
"Remember what I told you
If you were of the world they would love you"
England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds
And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
I don't want him to be aware that there's
Any such thing as grieving.
(Sinead O'Connor)
23.9.07
E que rico dia está hoje!

Something got me thinking tonight about
Changes
Changes
Somebody bought me a ticket tonight
Dangerous
Dangerous
I've just gotta go
Where everything is what it could be now
Where everything is ready for me now
Everything and every time
Everything and every kind
Make me yours
I'll make you mine
Make us blind
Someone asked me something tonight
What my name is, game is
Somebody made me feel something tonight
Brainless, painless
I've just gotta know
Where everything is what it could be now
Where everything is ready for me now
Everything and every time
Everything and every kind
Make me yours
I'll make you mine
Make us blind

Something got me thinking tonight about
Changes
Changes
Somebody bought me a ticket tonight
Dangerous
Dangerous
I've just gotta go
Where everything is what it could be now
Where everything is ready for me now
Everything and every time
Everything and every kind
Make me yours
I'll make you mine
Make us blind
Someone asked me something tonight
What my name is, game is
Somebody made me feel something tonight
Brainless, painless
I've just gotta know
Where everything is what it could be now
Where everything is ready for me now
Everything and every time
Everything and every kind
Make me yours
I'll make you mine
Make us blind
22.9.07
21.9.07
Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated
Should seem "a cuckoo-song," as thou dost treat it,
Remember, never to the hill or plain,
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain
Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed.
Belovèd, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt’s pain
Cry, "Speak once more—thou lovest!" Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll
The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated
Should seem "a cuckoo-song," as thou dost treat it,
Remember, never to the hill or plain,
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain
Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed.
Belovèd, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt’s pain
Cry, "Speak once more—thou lovest!" Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll
The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Jordan, R.I.P.
| Born: | October 17, 1948(1948-10-17) |
|---|---|
| Died: | September 16, 2007 (aged 58) |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Genres: | Fantasy |
| Influences: | J.R.R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert |
19.9.07
Bom, tudo em perspectiva. Aí vem uma semana difícil. Eh estranho como nunca escrevo sobre o quotidiano. Talvez por intuir que o quotidiano é directamente proporcional à claridade do observador. Não falo da sua qualidade, intensidade ou valor. O próprio quotidiano, ou a função de máxima adequação do observador, é que segue um trajecto qualificável que é gráfico das viagens que o observador efectua dentro de si mesmo. O pensamento em existência e fruição pode atingir uma massa crítica que provoca efeitos engraçados de percepção mística, teorização onde certezas e questões não são mutuamente exclusivas, e "ultimately", harmonia com o self. Agora, isto não impede que venha aí uma semana difícil. Amo-te :)
14.9.07

Escrevo-te com o fogo e a água
Escrevo-te com o fogo e a água. Escrevo-te
no sossego feliz das folhas e das sombras.
Escrevo-te quando o saber é sabor, quando tudo é surpresa.
Vejo o rosto escuro da terra em confins indolentes.
Estou perto e estou longe num planeta imenso e verde.
O que procuro é um coração pequeno, um animal
perfeito e suave. Um fruto repousado,
uma forma que não nasceu, um torso ensanguentado,
uma pergunta que não ouvi no inanimado,
um arabesco talvez de mágica leveza.
Quem ignora o sulco entre a sombra e a espuma?
Apaga-se um planeta, acende-se uma árvore.
As colinas inclinam-se na embriaguez dos barcos.
O vento abriu-me os olhos, vi a folhagem do céu,
o grande sopro imóvel da primavera efémera.
- António Ramos Rosa
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