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Angels - Anjos

Angels

and saints of excellent

behavior

with wings to fly into the sky

and other blues

stay on ground

their feet tied to the clay anchorage

infinity isn't a destination

neither route

nor way.

Anjos

e santos de exemplar

conduta

com asas de voar para o céu

e outros azuis

ficam no chão

de pés atados ao ancoradouro de barro

o infinito não é destino

nem rota

nem caminho.


by Armando TABORDA, 2010

(post1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2017; 3rd edition, 2022)

9 comments

Steve Bucknell said:

" A Klee drawing named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress". Walter Benjamin.
9 years ago

Armando Taborda replied to Steve Bucknell:

Art was the great subject / aim of WB!

Great quotation, Steve! Love it!
9 years ago

Armando Taborda said:

Thanks for fave, .t.a.o.n.!
9 years ago ( translate )

Anna Mélia said:

les pieds liés à leur encre de boue...
beau !
14 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to Anna Mélia:

Merci à toi comme toujours, chère Anna!
14 years ago ( translate )

Le miroir de l'aube said:

Les anges n'ont pas d'autres ailes que celles rêvés par les hommes, Armando.

Je suis un homme :la tête dans les étoiles et les pieds dans la boue , mais debout !
14 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to Le miroir de l'aube:

..."la tête dans les étoiles et les pieds dans la boue" c'est ta image, Lionel...nous sommes d'accord que "l'infini n'est pas une destination / ni route / ni chemin"...
14 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to :

Through your page I can understand what you say. You are so sensitive, open mind and poet as myself. I can read your words through your photos, Jerri. Thanks from the heart!
14 years ago

Armando Taborda replied to :

...malhareusement, nit un but, Agatha...c'est simplement une abstraction mathématique...merci à toi...
14 years ago ( translate )