And now for something totally different...
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/01/and_the_snake_s.html
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Only until this cigarette is endedOnly until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
The broken shadow dances on the wall,
I will permit my memory to recall
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended.
And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done.
Yours is a face of which I can forget
The color and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Dia de eleições... Election day...
Praça da Batalha, PortoAbaixo el-rei Sebastião
É preciso enterrar el-rei Sebastião
é preciso dizer a toda a gente
que o Desejado já não pode vir.
É preciso quebrar na ideia e na canção
a guitarra fantástica e doente
que alguém trouxe de Alcácer Quibir.
Eu digo que está morto.
Deixai em paz el-rei Sebastião
deixai-o no desastre e na loucura.
Sem precisarmos de sair o porto
temos aqui à mão
a terra da aventura.
Vós que trazeis por dentro
de cada gesto
uma cansada humilhação
deixai falar na vossa voz a voz do vento
cantai em tom de grito e de protesto
matai dentro de vós el-rei Sebastião.
Quem vai tocar a rebate
os sinos de Portugal?
Poeta: é tempo de um punhal
por dentro da canção.
Que é preciso bater em quem nos bate
é preciso enterrar el-rei Sebastião.
Manuel Alegre
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
When You Are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced among the mountains overhead
And hid his face among a crowd of stars.
William Butler Yeats
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
