Category: poetry

  • Song of myself

    The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)…

  • It’s all illusion

    Remember young sir, it’s all illusion; and dreams though potent, are no solution to the problems that we face. The rainbows that we chase are no more real than the idea that your foot will heal. My words no doubt seem strange to you, but please remember that they’re true. — The Pied Piper of Hamelin…

  • Ausência

    Eu deixarei que morra em mim o desejo de amar os teus olhos que são doces Porque nada te poderei dar senão a mágoa de me veres eternamente exausto. No entanto a tua presença é qualquer coisa como a luz e a vida E eu sinto que em meu gesto existe o teu gesto e…