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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

A WINTER DAY

I

'Tis a void winter day, sad as a moan.
A sense of loneliness, as of a stone
Upon a grave, or of a rock in sea
Rests like a mighty shadow over me.
I am unnerved, unminded by the pall
Of solemn clouds that, weighty over all,
Curtail the vision; and upon mine ear

The City's rumble brings despair and fear
To crush my spirit free and wild.
        The rain,
Reiterated horribly, again
Beast with its drops at my cold window‑pane
With such a sound as makes us know it cold.
The world is ghostly, undaylike and old,
And weary passengers, with cautious tread,
Yet hurried, walk within the streets soul‑dead
In the unkindness of their hue of lead.

The streets are streamlets, and perpetual
A sound of little waters, on roof, on wall,
Down in the streets, in pipes, in window‑glass
And into rooms doth wetly come and pass.
        All is the rain's.
All is pale wetness, darkness inly cold,
A sentiment of waste things and of old
Making all things exterior sorrows, pains;
And all we hear and feel and know and see
Is wrapt around as with a masking cloak
In inconceivable monotony.

All in the houses and up from the street
Is a long watery shuffle of heavy feet,
A sound of drenched garments, and a sense
Of a sad chillness, latently intense.
Through cracks in doors and windows a gust cold
Of wind penetrates like a memory of old
Times to make freeze my body, ill reclined
Upon a couch, a sufferer with my mind.

Life in the streets is sad, a monotone
More dull than usual ordinariness:
Business and work have lost their usual stress,
The vender's cries are each of them a moan
Grotesque, desolate, as forlorn and half‑dead
Hearts might produce which make a war (?) attempt
At talking normally, as if they not bled.
Half‑childish urchins, gloriously unkempt
Laugh at the water that cart‑wheels upshed.

The muddy urchins in the streets that play
Make shades of envy in my soul to stay.
Couples, some newly‑married, others not,
Who in the commonness of their no‑thought

Have a deep happiness I would not have,
A joy to which I would prefer the grave,
Pass in the street. some gay and some sedate.
I feel me no like men in any way.
I envy those - I speak true - without hate
And without admiration, isolate (?).
I would that l were happy as they are
But not with that their happiness. Thus far
Such living as theirs is were unto me
Misery, penury, monotony.

Alas for all who dream! Alas for us,
Poor poets, more or less mad, more or less
Foolish! In this consists true happiness!
In knowing how to be monotonous.
Happy are they who can see without sorrow
        To‑day yield us to‑morrow
And yet to‑morrow and to‑day to them
Different days because different days,
Which are to me (save that they pass) the same.

II

The view I have of this cold winter day,
The deep depression that makes my thoughts stray
Is but a symbol and a synthesis
Of what my life perpetually is.

How deep my thoughts in pain and sadness are!
How wreck'd my soul in its intense despair!
How desolate, disconsolately mute
My heart is of the words that like scents shoot
From the full flower of true youthfulness!
How locked am I within my own distress!
How in the tragic circle soul‑confined
        Of my abhorred self!
Not one ambition leads me - power nor pelf,
No wish for fame, no love of poor mankind.
But I am weary, desolate and cold
E'vn as this winter day. I have grown old
In watching dreams go by and pass away
        Leaving a memory pure and bright
        Of aught that was and died as light
Without the living horror of decay.

Is this thy life, irresolute soul of mine?
How pale the sun of thy sad morn doth shine!
How it forebodes the cloudiness that comes
Outstretched wings of the storm whose muffled drums
Of warning in the paling day are heard
Deep in the distance lesseningly blurred.

Thou look'st not death nor evil in the face
Poor soul despairing in life's troubled race!
All forms of life, all things have been to thee
Mutations of eternal misery.
All years, all homes to thee have been
In the same drama many a change of scene.
Thou hast not learned to live, but thou dost cling
Madly to life (dreading Death's night severe),
As if life or the world were anything!
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Juan L. Ortiz

Juan L. Ortiz

Sim, as escamas do crepúsculo...

Sim, as escamas do crepúsculo
no fio, último?, de Novembro sobre o rio:
ou o êxtase dos véus de Novembro
fluindo até a noite, e mais além? ...
incrível de ecos
e de fugas e passagens
de não se sabe já
que despedida ou que chamado
Sim, o fluido profundo, sobre ouro,
que nimba o barranco
e inscreve misticamente uma árvore alta,
e irradia, até quando?
umas vagas pétalas de íris...
Sim, sim,
o verde e o celeste, revelados,
que tremem por volta das dez porque partem,
e na meia tarde se desfazem ou se perdem
em sua mesma água fragílima...
Sim, sim, sim
Mas veio a luz, estava só a luz
detrás das persianas da manhã íntima:
veio a criatura eterna, o sentimento das estrelas,
a eucaristia dos mundos, a alma primeira
antes, antes do prisma,
com essa flauta branca, inefavelmente branca, sempre imposta sobre o caos...
Veio a luz, veio a menina essencial,
impossivelmente pura das folhas e de suas próprias asas,
até um esquecimento cheio dela
como do olhar, único, de uma estiagem nunca vista....
(tradução de Idelber Avelar)
:
Sí, las escamas del crepúsculo...
Juan L. Ortiz
Sí, las escamas del crepúsculo
en el filo, último?, de Noviembre sobre el río:
o el éxtasis de los velos de Noviembre
fluyendo hasta la noche, y más allá?...
increíble de ecos
y de fugas y pasajes
de no se sabe ya
qué despedida o qué llamado...
Sí, el fluido profundo, sobre oro,
que nimba la barranca
e inscribe místicamente un árbol alto,
y radia, hasta cuándo?,
unos vagos pétalos de iris...
Sí, sí,
el verde y el celeste, revelados,
que tiemblan hacia las diez porque se van
y en la media tarde se deshacen o se pierden
en su misma agua fragilísima...
Sí, sí, sí...
Pero vino la luz, estaba sólo la luz
detrás de las persianas de la mañana íntima:
vino la criatura eterna, el sentimiento de las estrellas,
la eucaristía de los mundos, el alma primera
antes, antes del prisma,
con esa flauta blanca, inefablemente blanca, siempre impuesta
sobre el caos…
Vino la luz, vino la niña esencial,
imposiblemente pura de las hojas y de sus propias alas,
hasta un olvido lleno de ella
como de la mirada, única, de un estío nunca visto…
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Miklós Radnóti

Miklós Radnóti

Céu espumante

No céu que espuma, a lua oscila.
Estar vivo me causa espécie.
A morte assídua espreita a Idade:
quem ela encontre, empalidece.
O ano grita e depois desmaia.
(Gritara olhando ao seu redor.)
Que outono ronda-me de novo?
Que inverno embotado de dor?
Sangrava o bosque; mesmo as horas
sangravam no vaivém dos dias.
Ventos riscavam, sobre a neve,
cifras enormes e sombrias.
Já vi de tudo; o ar me esmaga
com seu peso; um silêncio cresce
ruidoso, cálido e me abraça
como fez antes que eu nascesse.
Detenho-me junto de um tronco
que agita iroso as frondes plenas
e estende um galho. Há de esganar-me?
Não é fraqueza ou medo – apenas
cansaço. Calo. E o galho apalpa
os meus cabelos, mudo, aflito.
Cabe esquecer – mas não há nada
de que já tenha me esquecido.
Espuma afoga a lua; o miasma
estria os céus, verde e agressivo.
Sem pressa, enrolo com cuidado
o meu cigarro. Eu estou vivo.
(tradução de Nelson Ascher)
:
Tajtékos ég
Miklós Radnóti
Tajtékos égen ring a hold,
csodálkozom, hogy élek.
Szorgos halál kutatja ezt a kort
s akikre rálel, mind olyan fehérek.
Körülnéz néha s felsikolt az év,
körülnéz, aztán elalél.
Micsoda osz lapul mögöttem ujra
s micsoda fájdalomtól tompa tél!
Vérzett az erdo és a forgó
idoben vérzett minden óra.
Nagy és sötétlo számokat
írkált a szél a hóra.
Megértem azt is, ezt is,
súlyosnak érzem a levegot,
neszekkel teljes, langyos csönd ölel,
mint születésem elott.
Megállok itt a fa tövében,
lombját zúgatja mérgesen.
Lenyúl egy ág. Nyakonragad?
nem vagyok gyáva, gyönge sem,
csak fáradt. Hallgatok. S az ág is
némán motoz hajamban és ijedten.
Feledni kellene, de én
soha még semmit sem feledtem.
A holdra tajték zúdúl, az égen
sötétzöld sávot von a méreg.
Cigarettát sodrok magamnak,
lassan, gondosan. Élek.
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