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Scream

sound's bird flying over the air of my day

magic vibration of scents sounding through the fascination´s memory where I want to live.

Because to hug you is so strong that I close my arms upon your absence.

Because to kiss you is still so strong that I bite my blood tasting lips.

Because the waiting is this on you loneliness thinking of the love I feel.

Silent Smile (9)

Grito

ave de som volteando no ar do meu dia

vibração mágica de odores que me soam na memória do fascínio em que me quero viver.

Porque abraçar-te é tão forte que me cerro os braços sobre a tua ausência.

Porque beijar-te é tão forte ainda que me mordo os lábios de sabor a sangue.

Porque esperar-te é esta solidão de te pensar no amor de que sou.

In "Manual do Desperdício", Ceres Editora, 1994

HOME

In the afternoon I worry about the nightfall

and ask to myself

What have I done?

Invisible

dust moves around and covers furniture and other beds

ground

carpet

mosaic

thought

somewhere

strained by a beam of light

dust becomes a whirl of visible particles

flying again

without destiny

on a wind's blow.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XXXVII, Mi…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the figure)

text illustrated by Fernando Grade

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/83834

Drums are beaten far away

I don't know who is being executed

I imagine myself a sailor without navigated sea

hidden in the Jerónimos' crypt

cowardly pasted to the stone's columns as they were land to discover

deserter in time to sail away

not departing criminal.

Deserter (illustration)

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the figure)

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/98691

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

Within or out the festivity season

a good wine is always a Christmas' Day

proper to drink on the New Year's Eve.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Ne…

Dentro ou fora da época festiva

um bom vinho é sempre Dia de Natal

próprio para beber no Ano Novo.

In "Florilégio de Natal" by the poets of the "Tertúlia Rio de Prata" , Universitária Editora, 1997