In the long night veins nerves muscles scars and other tissues throb on me
spontaneous semen as a water thread
drop by drop oozed
on my stone's abdomen.
Petrified in granite I shine from quartz crystals
will-o'-the-wisp over the sleeping grave where I bury myself.
Appropriately I get older through this mineral mutation towards the ether where I float
serene
in a spacecraft of smiling light
as the slow mineralization of my body was eternal.
sémen espontâneo como fio de água
gota a gota vertido
em abdómen de pedra.
Petrificado em granito resplandeço de cristais de quartzo
fogo-fátuo na campa do sono onde me sepulto.
Adequadamento envelheço na mineral mutação para o éter onde flutuo
sereno
em nave de sorriso de luz
como se fosse eterna a lenta mineralização do meu corpo.
by Armando TABORDA, in "MANUAL DO DESPERDÍCIO", Ceres Editora, 1994
(post 1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2017; 3rd edition, 2020)
Ever since I took this as one of my better poems written when I was around 30 years old.
Still yesterday, when I resumed it to illustrate my (new) disease, some tears came down my face. I was truly moved!
Certainly not you! You don't feel the slow mutation of your bodies! You are not Poets!
Le miroir de l'aube has replied to Armando Taborda clubArmando Taborda club has replied to Le miroir de l'aubele lourd manteau de la dalle?
Suis je la fleur qui se meurt entre deux cailloux blancs?"
Garder l'essence de la fluidité vitale après la mort ? que nous importe si nous n'avons pas su la garder pendant la vie. Pétrifiés de terreur , nous sommes déjà du granit . Si l'éternité nous paraît si figée , c'est sans doute que l'instant a une valeur de fluidité . Tout ce qui coule , tout ce qui s'épanche et verse rappelle le mouvement cosmique .
Armando Taborda club has replied to Le miroir de l'aubePas d'admiration! Plusieurs fois nôtres thèmes sont pareilles avec divers expressionnisme.
Merci infiniment, ami!
Perdoa-me?
Emocionada, Armando, e não é agora que percebo a sua sensibilidade fantástica.
Um beijo, meu amigo querido.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Rita GuimaraesCom o corpo cada vez mais mineralizado agradeço-te a amizade constante com um beijo!
impressive poem, my friend !
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