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BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
In our graves we are all
beautiful girls. Our skin
is falling away like the tide.
Our bones are
long and slender,
all inhibitions gone. We're
lovely in the mud
that fit boys have dug
for a council wage,
not knowing how beautiful
we lay there
like honeymoon brides
anticipating sex
not expecting death,
serene as pawns and queens
and home in ourselves
forever.

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BELAS RAPARIGAS

Somos todas belas
em nossas sepulturas. A pele
cai-nos como a maré.
Nossos ossos ficam
mais compridos e delgados,
foram-se todas as inibições. Estamos
encantadoras na lama
que rapazes atléticos cavaram
por um ordenado fixo
ignorando quão bonitas
somos lá deitadas
como noivas em lua de mel
ansiosas por sexo
sem esperar a morte,
serenas como peões e rainhas
e em nossa própria casa
para sempre.


by Melissa LEE-HOUGHTON (b.1982, Manchester, UK), in "BEAUTIFUL GIRLS", 2013

(Portuguese translated by Armando TABORDA, 2017)

(photograph taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

(1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2017)
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buonacoppi, , Laurence, Malik Raoulda and 17 other people have particularly liked this photo


36 comments - The latest ones
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
Really a great shot !
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Ulrich John club
Thanks much, Ulrich!
9 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
o0o

here I lie and here I ponder
I dare not look and I dare not wonder
what life might have been had I survived
to sleep to ponder ... yet I feel so alive !
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to beverley
"beautiful girl" :)
9 years ago.
beverley has replied to Armando Taborda club
o0o to sleep perchance to dream ;-) oOo
9 years ago.
 Le miroir de l'aube
Le miroir de l'aube
" Je ne me lasse pas d'écrire des mots sur le sable
Que la marée emporte au large

Ecriture,rêve-bruit de lumière
Amour, la vie la mort, le mystère..."
Armando Taborda
traduction libre de L.D
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Le miroir de l'aube
une belle traduction, mon ami traducteur et grand poète, Lionel

merci à toi
9 years ago.
 Kaunos
Kaunos
A little bit macabre but i like it.
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Kaunos
:)
9 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Outstanding composition.
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Don Sutherland club
Thanks much, Don!
9 years ago.
 .t.a.o.n.
.t.a.o.n.
awesome !
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to .t.a.o.n.
"Nice boy"! :)
9 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
ADMIRED in POEMS 4U
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to beverley
Thanks, Bev!
9 years ago.
 Christel Ehretsmann
Christel Ehretsmann club
"où sont nos amoureuses?
elles sont au tombeau..."
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Christel Ehretsmann club
"eles sont plus heureuses
dans un séjour plus beau..."
9 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Je te remercie le fave, Bruno Suignard!
9 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave + invitation, Rhisiart Hincks!
9 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Je te remercie le fave, Lebojo!
9 years ago.
 Cold War Warrior
Cold War Warrior
Ligeia?
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Cold War Warrior
...from Edgar Allan POE? certainly not, Cold War...:)
9 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Agradeço-te a (*), Xata!
9 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, Lorenzo Salmonson!
9 years ago.
 Belleuse
Belleuse
Stunning idea and the words !
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Belleuse
Thanks much, Belleuse!
9 years ago.
 Spo
Spo
What a picture, what a poem! I had a summer job digging graves during college, and I remember how I once unearthed this beautiful lady in a new grave I was digging. I mean she had been buried more than 50 years ago, and there was only her skeleton left, but you know the saying of someone having beautiful bones – you can surely tell the beauty from the bones themselves! That is especially true with the skull. Her hair was left intact as well, beautifully braided. After I had hidden her remains below the same big birch tree where her grave was, I straightened up, and just then a breeze rustled the leaves above me. I looked up, and I was sure she was looking down at me high up in the tree. I will never forget the sensation.
9 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Spo
Your history is very interesting, Seppo! I agree when you say that we can see the person through his / her skeleton. The bones are the solid part of one's personality and when we caress a body we can feel them shaping the body we love.
9 years ago.
 Nouchetdu38
Nouchetdu38 club
Belle recherche esthétique!!!!
Bravo! Bela imagem!!!
7 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Nouchetdu38 club
Merci du coeur, Nouchet!
7 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, Adam *!
7 years ago.
 Malik Raoulda
Malik Raoulda club
Voila qui est clair et expressif +++++++
Joliment pensé et rendu .
7 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Merci deux fois, Malik!
7 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Je te remercie le fave, Laurence!
7 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Je te remercie le fave, Christine ****!
7 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, buonacoppi!
7 years ago.

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