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DRAGONFLIES MIGRATION (*)

As long as your name lives in my welcoming mornings
I resist to lichens
I mix fires
I reserve nectars
I shine as a fish shoal in motion
As long as your name lives in my welcoming mornings
I arrest myself to the grindings
I wake up on the rocks
I drink the jealousy and the wind
I go down the banks of cold steppes
As long as your name lives in my welcoming mornings
I dodge the fear of waking up
I gather fig and persimmon trees
I foresee faces long forgotten
I realize branches
When your love lies on other mornings
other than mine
I will return to goodbyes with strangers
I will migrate in dragonflies
Freshly whitewashed, I will drink the journeys of deceptions
and I will forget the pulps, deserts and mists

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A MIGRAÇÃO DAS LIBÉLULAS (*)

Enquanto o teu nome morar nas manhãs que me acolhem
Resisto aos líquenes
Misturo fogos
Reservo seivas
Brilho cardume ofício
Enquanto o teu nome morar nas manhãs que me acolhem
Prendo-me às moagens
Acordo nas pedras
Bebo o ciúme e a ventania
Desço as margens de estepes frias
Enquanto o teu nome morar nas manhãs que me acolhem
Esquivo-me ao receio de acordar
Reúno figueiras e diospiros
Antevejo rostos tão esquecidos
Fabrico galhos
Quando o teu nome se deitar noutras manhãs
que não as minhas
voltarei às despedidas com estranhos
migrarei em libélulas
Caiada de fresco, beberei as viagens dos enganos
e esquecerei as polpas os desertos e as brumas

by Cecília BARREIRA, in her FB page 19.11.2020

(English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2020)

(*) my title / meu título

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20 comments

Malik Raoulda said:

Impeccable..... HFF.
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to Malik Raoulda:

Merci, Malik!
3 years ago ( translate )

Annemarie said:

belòlissima!
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to Annemarie:

Thanks, Annemarie!
3 years ago ( translate )

╰☆☆June☆☆╮ said:

Good work.
◦•●◉✿ Have a great weekend✿◉●•◦
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to ╰☆☆June☆☆╮:

Thanks, June!
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda said:

Thanks for fave, goandgo!
3 years ago ( translate )

J.Garcia said:

Belo poema!
Obrigada, Armando
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda replied to J.Garcia:

És sempre bem-vinda, Judite!
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda said:

Thanks for fave, Ulrich John!
3 years ago

cammino said:

I think this poem is a hymn to true love?
3 years ago

Armando Taborda replied to cammino:

Yes, cammino, you're right, unless the poet is a pretender!
3 years ago

Armando Taborda replied to :

Merci, vero! Bisous!
3 years ago ( translate )

Armando Taborda said:

Thanks for fave, Fred Fouarge!
3 years ago ( translate )

Annemarie said:

Happy sunday
thanks for your visit
( at the moment ipernity is in blackout for uploads cmments, mail etc
sorry for that; hope they can fix it soon)
3 years ago