Wednesday 25 April 2007

Vintecinco de avril





PEDRA FILOSOFAL
Eles não sabem que o sonho
e' 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 aves que gritam
em bebedeiras de azul.
Eles não sabem que o sonho
e' vinho, e' espuma, e' fermento,
bichinho a'lacre e sedento,
de focinho pontiagudo,
que fossa através de tudo
num perpetuo movimento.
Eles não sabem que o sonho
e' tela, e' cor, e' pincel,
base, fuste, capitel,
arco em ogiva, vitral,
pina'culo de catedral,
contraponto, sinfonia,
mascara grega, magia,
que e' retorta de alquimista,
mapa do mundo distante,
rosa-dos-ventos, Infante,
caravela quinhentista,
que e' Cabo da Boa Esperanca,
ouro, canela, marfim,
florete de espadachim,
bastidor, passo de danca,
Colombina e Arlequim,
passarola voadora,para-raios,
locomotiva,barco de proa festiva,
alto-forno, geradora,
cisão do atomo, radar,
ultra-som, televisao,
desembarque em foguetão
na superficie lunar.

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


The Fool on the Hill




Tuesday 24 April 2007

The Hand That Signed the Paper


The Hand That Signed The Paper
The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.
The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder,
The finger joints are cramped with chalk;
A goose's quill has put an end to murder
That put an end to talk.
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
And famine grew, and locusts came;
Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.
The five kings count the dead but do not soften
The crusted wound nor pat the brow;
A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven;
Hands have no tears to flow.
-- Dylan Thomas


Poetry is just another name for reality...


Monday 23 April 2007

April is the cruellest month



APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering
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Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
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And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,

My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,

And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
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Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter

Wishful Thinking

For the moment being, this is an aimless blog. It was meant to be a virtual meeting point for us teachers of English as well as English teachers, 8-) Anyhow, as the bard said, "we are the same stuff dreams are made of" and this is but a dream: trying to make heads or tails of all this.

Monday 16 April 2007

Down on Me!





"Down on Me"



Down on me, down on me,
Looks like everybody in this whole round world


They’re down on me.
Love in this world is so hard to find


When you’ve got yours and I got mine.
That’s why it looks like everybody in this whole round world


They’re down on me.
Saying they’re down on me, down on me.


Looks like everybody in this whole round world
Down on me.



When you see a hand that’s held out toward you,
Give it some love, some day it may be you.
That’s why it looks like everybody in this whole round world
They’re down on me, yeah.


Lord, they’re down on me, down on me, oh!
Looks like everybody in this whole round worldIs down on me.



Believe in your brother, have faith in man,Help each other, honey, if you can
Because it looks like everybody in this whole round worldIs down on me.
I’m saying down on me, oh, down on me, oh!
It looks like everybody in this whole round world
Down on me!!