Ossos longos, ossos chatos, ossos curtos, ossos irregulares. O osso é uma estrutura exclusiva dos animais vertebrados - a única que lhe sustenta o corpo e apoia os músculos para o movimento. É osso o que protege cada órgão vital do nosso corpo: o crânio protege o cérebro, as costelas, o coração. SUB-STANTE.
segunda-feira, fevereiro 28, 2011
sábado, fevereiro 26, 2011
Octeto do Porto
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2ªParte
Mendelsohn Op.20
sexta-feira, fevereiro 25, 2011
"She paints her face with her eyes." *
Coisas do 28 e outras coincidências bonitas - 2
quinta-feira, fevereiro 24, 2011
Coisas do 28 e outras coincidências bonitas
terça-feira, fevereiro 22, 2011
segunda-feira, fevereiro 21, 2011
"In the prison of his days / Teach the free man how to praise" *
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's carnal ecstasy.
Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.
Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find our mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
'Lullaby'
As I Walked Out One Eveing.
© Vintage, 1995
* Epitáfio do poeta em Kirchstetten, Áustria.
domingo, fevereiro 20, 2011
sábado, fevereiro 19, 2011
Homage to My Hips
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don’t fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don’t like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top
sexta-feira, fevereiro 18, 2011
quarta-feira, fevereiro 16, 2011
Às vezes faz bem *
segunda-feira, fevereiro 14, 2011
sexta-feira, fevereiro 11, 2011
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Imagem daqui
I ordered this, clean wood box
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
I would say it was the coffin of a midget
Or a square baby
Were there not such a din in it.
The box is locked, it is dangerous.
I have to live with it overnight
And I can't keep away from it.
There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there.
There is only a little grid, no exit.
I put my eye to the grid.
It is dark, dark,
With the swarmy feeling of African hands
Minute and shrunk for export,
Black on black, angrily clambering.
How can I let them out?
It is the noise that appalls me most of all,
The unintelligible syllables.
It is like a Roman mob,
Small, taken one by one, but my god, together!
I lay my ear to furious Latin.
I am not a Caesar.
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs.
They can be sent back.
They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner.
I wonder how hungry they are.
I wonder if they would forget me
If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree.
There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades,
And the petticoats of the cherry.
They might ignore me immediately
In my moon suit and funeral veil.
I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.
The box is only temporary.
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Faber & Faber
1965
No Dia Internacional do Doente, dor-de-dentes
quinta-feira, fevereiro 10, 2011
quarta-feira, fevereiro 09, 2011
Então
segunda-feira, fevereiro 07, 2011
Sonnets from the Portuguese
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnet 44
Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through,
And winter, and it seemed as if they grew
In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers.
So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart’s ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here’s eglantine,
Here’s ivy!—take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.