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The sea is an ocean's arm

and the ocean an earth's body

spacecraft without astrolabe nor sextant

neither science of sails winds and currents

drifted in the infinity's tides

looking for what seaport

or yacht club for an intermediate stop in the space

where everything happens as it was nothing?

Looking for a Seaport (illustr…

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

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

This text has also been published at: www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/43224

Carlos Alexandre: www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/98691

Worthy advertisement by "Animal Action", for the right to animal life

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Exemplar anúncio da "Acção Animal", pelo direito à vida animal

www.ipernity.com/doc/armando.taborda/5392578

Suffering can't be part of our traditions

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O sofrimento não pode fazer parte das nossas tradições

BLANK PIECE OF PAPER

I look at you blank piece of paper

I foresee a spreading blood tear

being absorbed by the sheet pores

blotting paper of a not yet coming pain

idea

ballerina

pilgrim

deciduous

non-existent

the pain

whatever it is

disappears through the pores

of any blank

piece of paper.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XXXIII, Mi…

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

Illustration by Fernando Grade

In "VIOLA DELTA", Volume XXXIII, 2002

Nothing justifies our destiny of shadows

nor fire

nor flame

nor ember

we just burn

sparks jumping out the fire crackle for instants

and scintillate

in the smoke

that extinguishes them.

Fire of Life (illustration)

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

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

This text has also been published at: www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/33052

Carlos Alexandre: www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/98691