sexta-feira, setembro 30, 2005

Afterglow

Afterglow


É sempre comovente o pôr do sol
por indigente ou berrante que seja,
mas ainda bem mais comovedor
é o brilho desesperado e derradeiro
que enferruja a planície
quando o último sol ficou submerso.
Dóí-nos reter essa luz tensa e clara,
essa alucinação que impõe ao espaço
o medo unânime da sombra
e que pára de súbito
quando notamos como é falsa,
quando acabam os sonhos,
quando sabemos que sonhamos.


(Jorge Luis Borges)

2 Comments:

Blogger FMS said...

Credo. Screw bots.

Recommended listening:

Perlinpinpin Folc, Ua Botelha au Mar

Queres? :)

10/01/2005 8:39 da tarde  
Blogger FMS said...

Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds,
Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks,
My busy heart who shudders as she talks
Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

Shut, too, in a tower of words, I mark
On the horizon walking like the trees
The wordy shapes of women, and the rows
Of the star-gestured children in the park.
Some let me make you of the vowelled beeches,
Some of the oaken voices, from the roots
Of many a thorny shire tell you notes,
Some let me make you of the water's speeches.

Behind a pot of ferns the wagging clock
Tells me the hour's word, the neural meaning
Flies on the shafted disk, declaims the morning
And tells the windy weather in the cock.
Some let me make you of the meadow's signs;
The signal grass that tells me all I know
Breaks with the wormy winter through the eye.
Some let me tell you of the raven's sins.

Especially when the October wind
(Some let me make you of autumnal spells,
The spider-tongued, and the loud hill of Wales)
With fists of turnips punishes the land,
Some let me make you of the heartless words.
The heart is drained that, spelling in the scurry
Of chemic blood, warned of the coming fury.
By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds.

10/01/2005 8:45 da tarde  

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