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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

52 - summerland

SUMMERLAND

One day, Time having ceased,
        Our lives shall meet again,
From Place and Name released.
        Only that shall remain
Of each of us that may
Seem natural to that Day.

There we will newly love,
        Wondering at the old mood
With which love did us move,
        When pain and solitude
Were what each soul had got
For its contingent lot.

There, heaven being between us
        And touch a real thing,
The texture luminous
        Of our true lives will bring
God into our love like breath.
Nowhere will there be death.

The need to suffer and sigh,
        The inevitable cares,
The awaiting and the cry
        That goes from joy to tears -
These have no need to be
In love's eternity.

The hours shall make our love
        Grow younger, not more old.
Some trick of time shall move
        Wont even to truer gold,
Regret shall not be aught
Possible there to thought.

That region light‑suspended
        Under truer blue skies
Shall let our souls feel blended,
        Yet be true unities.
Nought shall have power to fret
Our hearts to tire of it.

A golden land where God
        Stayed a Day of His Time,
Not as the world, where not
        A moment did he abide,
And where His passing left
The sense of aught bereft.

My heart, that thinks of this,
        Pines, for it is nowhere,
And she that meets my bliss
        With her new old love there -
She is unreal as all
That to this verse I call.

Yet who knows? Perhaps this
        Is not wishing, but seeing.
Perhaps this love, this bliss,
        This conscious glad not‑being
Is some reality
Through fancy seen by me.

Perhaps it casts a spell
        From where it can be found.
What is impossible?
        Where is God's bourne and bound?
Why, if I dream this, may
Not this be mine one day?

Who knows what our dreams are?
        Who knows all that God makes?
Perhaps life doth but mar
        The immediate truth that takes
Its beauty from being dreamed.
Nothing eter merely seemed.

Somewhere where God is nearer
        These things are een now true.
Oh, let me be no fearer
        That this may not be so!
All is more strange than that
Small glimpse of it we get.

Mine eyes are wild with joy
        Because I have these thoughts.
They cannot tire nor cloy
        Because God ever allots
To each high thing the power
To weigh not on its hour.

My flower garden is
        Full of new flowers now.
My lips are kissed by bliss
        Because I know not how.
My heart fails and I swim
Within a luminous rim.

A halo of hope comes round
        My soul. I am that child
That cries: Lo! I have found
        This flower strange and wild.
The unknown flower I have
Grew on my dead dreams' grave.

A trembling sense of being
        More than my sense can hold,
A bird of feeling seeing
        The great, earth‑hidden gold
Of the approaching dawn,
A breath, a light, a swoon,

A presence interwoven
        With rays of other light,
A spell, a power untroven
        Of my more clear delight,
I faint, I fade, I seem
Myself to be my dream.

And if this be not so,
        Oh, God, make it now be!
Let me not find more woe
        Because I so dreamed Thee!
Let aught for which I pine
Merit being divine.

Let this resemble heaven
        And be my home for e'er,
Even if for e'er mean living
        But this hour really fair.
An hour in God shall be
Enough eternity.
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Edmir Domingues

Edmir Domingues

Poema para Velhos

onde se fala da emoção imperdoável — e vergonhosa
— das lembranças do País chamado Infância.
Nas comarcas de Infância havia vida.
O que fiz dessa vida? Que sei eu?
Onde estão os anseios desse tempo?
Pois havia, no então, as borboletas
de asas azuis, que agora já não vejo,
as quais eu perseguia, sob as sombras
das bananeiras e dos laranjais.
Que fazer, neste instante, para vê-las
em viagem de volta aos tempos idos?

É muito tarde, Amor, é muito tarde.

Cantava o sabiá sobre as palmeiras
que os ventos marinheiros balançavam
como as brisas beijavam as bandeiras.
Como tornar atrás, sem instrumentos,
sem mapas nem roteiros, destruídos
no fragor dos combates os sextantes?

É muito tarde, Amor, é muito tarde.

Os perfumes de Infância, nos cabelos
da bem-amada, onde estarão nesta hora?
As pipas coloridas, os campinhos
de várzea, num País de Juventude?
Tudo isso acabou. Toda a pureza
morreu, estraçalhada pelas Máquinas.
As crianças de agora se realizam
na frieza dos seus computadores,
curtindo os seus Heróis da Violência,
com sangue, sangue. E cada vez mais sangue.

Não pisaram, jamais, terras de Infância.

já não creem no Lobo, na Avozinha
do Chapeuzinho, a Casa da Floresta
construída de puro chocolate.

Papai Noel existe, com certeza,
para aqueles que sempre creram nele.

A Pequena Sereia, Os Três Porquinhos,
sandálias de cristal da Cinderela,
e João, Maria, os Ovos de Ouro, tudo,
mesmo o Patinho Feio que era um cisne,
já não são coisas da imaginação.
São tevês, são cinema, sem o apelo
das histórias de Infância.

(Capineiro
do meu Pai, por que me cortas o cabelo?
Minha mãe me penteou, minha Madrasta me enterrou,
pelo figo da figueira que o pássaro picou... )

É muito tarde, Amor, é muito tarde.

Como as, outras histórias, sob a Lua
e sob os copiares, Lobisomens
e Mulas sem Cabeça, e Curupiras
com seus pés para trás, como antevendo
o para trás que cresce em tudo, agora.
E Anhangá, e a Alamoa, e o Negrinho
do Pastoreio entregue ao formigueiro.
Tudo morreu, nas garras do Progresso,
que é um bem, que é um mal inevitável.

A leitura está morta. Os livros todos
deverão ser lançados às fogueiras.
— Menos os bestasséleres que vendem
como vende o pão-quente em padaria.

Resta agora a pergunta: como então
apertar mãos de Acab e de Simbad,
encontrar Aladim, seu servo, o Gênio,
escutar Sherazade, noite a noite?

Tudo acabou, e os sons da vida nova
são pios de Corujas, retalhando
as mortalhas do tempo, do meu Tempo.
Habita agora o Corvo no meu quarto.
Nunca mais voltarei a Infância, a antiga
pátria dos sonhos bons, das esperanças.

É muito tarde, Amor, é muito tarde.
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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Aspiration (Alexander Search)

Joyless seeing me to be
Mother Nature asked of me:
        «What desirest thou?
Whence comes this thy misery?
Whence the sadness on thy brow?
        Tell me what thy wish is.»

- «To give it thou art powerless.
Something lovelier than love,
Bluer than the sky above,
Truer than the truth we have
Something better than the grave,
Aught that in the soul has root,
Something that no mistress' kiss
Nor mother's love can substitute.
But I, dreaming, do pollute
With my dream its object's day.»

In the silence absolute
Of my soul I hear it say:

´'Love can make me but to weep,
        Glory maketh me but pine.
        Give the world with my keep,
        And still nothing will be mine.'»

- «But what feelest thou in thee?»

- «Hope and misery the first,
Then despair and misery.

´Oh, it is a desire, a thirst
The limits of my soul to burst,
To spring outside my consciousness,
        I know not how nor why;
A wish with moonlight wings to fly
Past the high walls of distress.
Lifting my most daring flight
Up, far up, beyond all night,
More than eagles fly in air
Would I in that atmosphere.

«Something more near to me in space
        Than my body is. In fine
Something than myself more mine.
Something (in what words to trace
Its nature?) nearer in its bliss
To me than my own consciousness.
The Something I desire is this.
It is further than far away
And yet (its nature how to find?)
        Closer to me than my mind,
        Nearer to me than to-day.»


22-10-1907
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