Le mimosa

Sur fond d'azur le voici, comme un personnage de la comédie italienne, avec un rien d'histrionisme saugrenu, poudré comme Pierrot, dans son costume à pois jaunes, le mimosa.
Mais ce n'est pas un arbuste lunaire : plutôt solaire, multisolaire…
Un caractère d'une naïve gloriole, vite découragé.
Chaque grain n'est aucunement lisse, mais formé de poils soyeux, un astre si l'on veut, étoilé au maximum.
Les feuilles ont l'air de grandes plumes, très légères et cependant très accablées d'elles-mêmes ; plus attendrissantes dès lors que d'autres palmes, par là aussi très distinguées. Et pourtant, il ya quelque chose actuellement vulgaire dans l'idée du mimosa ; c'est une fleur qui vient d'être vulgarisée.
… Comme dans tamaris il y a tamis, dans mimosa il y a mima.


Francis Ponge, La Rage de l'expression, 1952
(Extrait du livre)

Pássaros

(Foto by Fernando Campanella)

A primavera de New England
não traz seus pássaros à minha janela.
Mas por que penso naqueles cantos
se nem os pássaros de meu velho rio
ou de minhas conhecidas árvores
vêm ao meu jardim cantar?


Só cantam para si próprios,
o martim- pescador, a corrila ,
o joão-de-barro atribulado.


Pensando melhor, nem mesmo pardais,
nenhum pio, nenhum bemol acasalado
conseguem meu dia despertar.
Ficam por si, longínquos, os canários
e os bem-te-vis nas cercanias .


Como é triste acordar
daquelas ternuras surdo, descantado.
como é áspero raspar do dia o aço.
ranger roldanas de hábitos e ossos.


Cantem para si, para Deus
ou para quem os consiga ouvir
o exótico robin , o cuco e a cotovia.
Nenhum trinado, nenhum grasnar,
vêm alcançar meus ouvidos ruidosos.


Ah, vejam, sou mesmo um rei nu,
um moedor de pedras,
sou aquele imperador da China
que tão pobre era sem seu pássaro -
aquele pobre mandarim ,
a solidão, meu triste rabicho,
a ausência, esta enorme vassala de mim.


Fernando Campanella, 1987

DISAGREEMENT

Steps with no return
inflame memory´s homelessness:
streets in silence
ignore you and resign
from immune photographs

What remains
is an ironic truce with the past
a vague poem
awake nonetheless
against the day´s edges


Júlio Castañon Guimarães
Translation by Steven White

Outono

As folhas caem, de muito longe
envelhecidas no céu, em longínquos jardins,
caem: é como um gesto de recusa.

E nas noites a terra pesada cai
fora das estrelas, em plena solidão.

Caímos todos. Cai a mão.
E vemos as outras. Dá-se o mesmo em todas elas.

Entretanto há alguém que sustêm essas quedas,
com infinita doçura, entre suas mãos.


Rainer Maria Rilke,
in Antologia Poética
Tradução de Antônio Roberto de Paula Leite

ROSA DO EPÍLOGO

(Rosa do deserto- Foto by Rafael Davila)


E vai-se a rosa-dos-ventos.
Vai-se o tempo devaneio
e o vento cala
nos longes.


Sinto a rosa que colheste
nem de rosa perfil tênue
e nem mais de rosa
ao longe.


Stella Leonardos
In: Rapsódica

The Old Dust

The living is a passing traveler;
The dead, a man come home.
One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth,
Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.
The rabbit in the moon pounds the medicine in vain;
Fu-sang, the tree of immortality, has crumbled to kindling wood.
Man dies, his white bones are dumb without a word
When the green pines feel the coming of the spring.
Looking back, I sigh; looking before, I sigh again.
What is there to prize in the life’s vaporous glory?


Li Po
(China 701-762)

Dancing

(Foto by Fernando Campanella)

The thought of God dancing
three partners, like ribbons
flowing to the music
the song of creation,
ringing, singing
all around, dancing,
flowing, spinning
creating, saving, guiding
all love, all divine,
together, one, whirling
twirling, to the dance of love


November 24, 2009

Raymond A. Foss
(Westfield-Massachusetts-EUA- 1960)

TO THE NIGHT

(Foto by Fernando Campanella)

This huge imponderable silence
revives dead things
by casting its charms
upon the light.

Time to overflow the glasses
with moon's fluids -
and here's to the night.

Fernando Campanella
(Minas Gerais- BR)



À NOITE

Este silêncio vasto e imponderável
revive as coisas mortas
atraindo a luz
em sua corte.

Tempo de transbordar as taças
com fluídos de lua -
e de brindar à noite.

Fernando Campanella
Tardução do autor.

'If'

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling
(Bombay, in British India,30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)
(Nobel Prize in Literature by 1907)

What Is Love?

What is Love?
Is it a folly,
Is it mirth, or melancholy?
Joys above,
Are there many, or not any?
What is Love?

If you please,
A most sweet folly!
Full of mirth and melancholy:
Both of these!
In its sadness worth all gladness,
If you please!

Prithee where,
Goes Love a-hiding?
Is he long in his abiding
Anywhere?
Can you bind him when you find him;
Prithee, where?

With spring days
Love comes and dallies:
Upon the mountains, through the valleys
Lie Love's ways.
Then he leaves you and deceives you
In spring days.

Ernest Dowson

AO SONO

Rebanho de ovelhas que lentamente passa
Uma de cada vez, o som da chuva e o farfalhar
Das folhas ao vento, abelhas, cascatas e o mar,
Prados, lenços d’água e o céu que esvoaça;
Sobre eles divaguei, um por um e ainda estou
Desperto! Logo os pássaros cantando
Nas árvores do pomar estarei escutando,
E o primeiro trinado do cuco que lá pousou.
Ontem e nas duas outras noites foi assim
Sono! Com todos os ardis não te pude receber:
Poupes-me nesta noite, vem a mim
Sem ti, que seria do encanto do alvorecer?
Vem, barreira entre o dia e a noite, enfim,
Pai do fresco pensar e do saudável viver!


William Wordsworth
in O olho Imóvel Pela Força da Harmonia

Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

(Foto by Fernando Campanella)

V

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.


William Wordsworth

Lines Written In Early Spring

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:--
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?


William Wordsworth

Rain In My Heart

There is a quiet in my heart
Like on who rests from days of pain.
Outside, the sparrows on the roof
Are chirping in the dripping rain.

Rain in my heart; rain on the roof;
And memory sleeps beneath the gray
And the windless sky and brings no
dreams
Of any well remembered day.

I would not have the heavens fair,
Nor golden clouds, nor breezes
mild,
But days like this, until my heart
To loss of you is reconciled.

I would not see you. Every hope
To know you as you were has
ranged.
I, who am altered, would not find
The face I loved so greatly changed.


Edgar Lee Masters

Pedra Filosofal

Eles não sabem que o sonho
é uma constante da vida
tão concreta e definida
como outra coisa qualquer

como esta pedra cinzenta
em que me sento e descanso
como este ribeiro manso
em serenos sobressaltos

como estes pinheiros altos
que em verde e oiro se agitam
como estas árvores que gritam
em bebedeiras de azul

eles não sabem que sonho
é vinho, é espuma, é fermento
bichinho alacre e sedento
de focinho pontiagudo
que fuça através de tudo
no perpétuo movimento

Eles não sabem que o sonho
é tela é cor é pincel
base, fuste ou capitel
arco em ogiva, vitral

Pináculo de catedral
contraponto, sinfonia
máscara grega, magia
que é retorta de alquimista

mapa do mundo distante
Rosa dos Ventos Infante
caravela quinhentista
que é cabo da Boa-Esperança

Ouro, canela, marfim
florete de espadachim
bastidor, passo de dança
Columbina e Arlequim

passarola voadora
pára-raios, locomotiva
barco de proa festiva
alto-forno, geradora

cisão do átomo, radar
ultra-som, televisão
desembarque em foguetão
na superfície lunar

Eles não sabem nem sonham
que o sonho comanda a vida
e que sempre que o homem sonha
o mundo pula e avança
como bola colorida
entre as mãos duma criança


Antonio Gedeão

Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright

Sometimes the sky's too bright,
Or has too many clouds or birds,
And far away's too sharp a sun
To nourish thinking of him.
Why is my hand too blunt
To cut in front of me
My horrid images for me,
Of over-fruitful smiles,
The weightless touching of the lip
I wish to know
I cannot lift, but can,
The creature with the angel's face
Who tells me hurt,
And sees my body go
Down into misery?
No stopping. Put the smile
Where tears have come to dry.
The angel's hurt is left;
His telling burns.

Sometimes a woman's heart has salt,
Or too much blood;
I tear her breast,
And see the blood is mine,
Flowing from her, but mine,
And then I think
Perhaps the sky's too bright;
And watch my hand,
But do not follow it,
And feel the pain it gives,
But do not ache.

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.
And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace,

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.


Dylan Thomas
in Collected Poems
(London: Phoenix, 2003)

MY QUINTESSENCIAL BLUE

(...quisera enxergar meus versos
com vistas de outro,
sem os olhos tacanhos de dentro...)

vou arrancar os sapatos
e ouvir
meu blue quintessenciado

despir-me de humores
e escapar, asas em som,
pelos portais dos sentidos
pelos desvãos do telhado

- não me lembrem então do mundo
este já me entope os poros
a cada esquina
e satura a pele feito pólipo -


vou desfazer as bagagens
armar a noite em blue

e ser assim alteridade
a mim imune
um corpo estranho
um vagalume

Fernando Campanella