Imaginada
Invocação
Não leva a nada
Não leva não
É só uma escada de papelão
Há outra entrada no Paraíso
Mais apertada
Mais sim senhor
Foi inventada
Por um anão
E está guardada
Por um dragão
Eu só conheço
Esse caminho
Do Paraíso
Composição: Atahualpa Yupanqui
Yo tengo tantos hermanosHappy phantom
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
Fragile - Sting, Fields of Gold
We count the broken lyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers slumber,
But o'er their silent sister's breast
The wild-flowers who will stoop to number?
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
Nay, grieve not for the dead alone
Whose song has told their hearts' sad story,--
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross without the crown of glory!
Not where Leucadian breezes sweep
O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow,
But where the glistening night-dews weep
On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow.
O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses,
Till Death pours out his longed-for wine
Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing presses,--
If singing breath or echoing chord
To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured,
As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1858
Arte de amar
Se queres sentir a felicidade de amar,
Esquece a tua alma
A alma é que estraga o amor
Só em Deus ela pode encontrar
Satisfação
Não noutra alma
As almas são incomunicáveis
Deixa teu corpo entender-se
Com outro corpo
Porque os corpos se entendem,
Mas as almas não.
Quando a indesejada das gentes chegar
(Não sei se dura ou caroável),
Talvez eu tenha medo.
Talvez sorria, ou diga:
Alô, iniludível!
O meu dia foi bom, pode a noite descer.
(A noite com seus sortilégios).
Encontrará lavrado o campo, a casa limpa,
A mesa posta, com cada coisa em seu lugar.
Manoel Bandeira
The life history of a butterfly is similar to our practice. We have some misconceptions about both, however. We may imagine, for example, that because butterflies are pretty, their life in the cocoon before they emerge is also pretty. We don't realize all that the worm must go through in order to become a butterfly. Similarly, when we begin to practice, we don't realize the long and difficult transformation required of us. We have to see through our pursuit of outward things, the false gods of pleasure and security. We have to stop gobbling this and pursuing that in our shortsighted way, and simply relax into the cocoon, into the darkness of the pain that is our life. Such practice requires years of our lives. Unlike the butterfly, we don't emerge once and for all.
Charlotte Joko Beck