Song to the Siren

Espero um dia fazer algo bonito assim. Uma das melhores músicas que já ouvi.
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, 'touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, o my heart shies from the sorrow'

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am troubled at the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing, 'swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you'

Menino do Mato - Manoel de Barros

Ele sabia que as coisas inúteis e os
homens inúteis
se guardam no abandono.
Os homens no seu prórpio abandono.
E as coisas inúteis ficam para a poesia.

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Eu queria fazer parte das árvores como os
pássaros fazem.
Eu queria fazer parte do orvalho como as
pedras fazem.
Eu só não queria significar.
Porque significar limita a imaginação.
E com pouca imaginação eu não poderia
fazer parte de uma árvore.
Como os pássaros fazem.
Então a razão me falou: o homem não
pode fazer parte do orvalho como as pedras
fazem.
Porque o homem não se transfigura senão
pelas palavras.
E isso era mesmo.

Aquilo que querem

"(...) Chega o momento de agir e eles ficam paralisados, histéricos, assustados - nada os amedronta mais do que aquilo que querem - (...)"

Dean Moriarty em On The Road, de Jack Kerouac.

A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure--a ghostly couple.

"Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered. "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake them."

But it wasn't that you woke us. Oh, no. "They're looking for it; they're drawing the curtain," one might say, and so read on a page or two. "Now they've found it,' one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself, the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. "What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?" My hands were empty. "Perhaps its upstairs then?" The apples were in the loft. And so down again, the garden still as ever, only the book had slipped into the grass.

But they had found it in the drawing room. Not that one could ever see them. The windowpanes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass. If they moved in the drawing room, the apple only turned its yellow side. Yet, the moment after, if the door was opened, spread about the floor, hung upon the walls, pendant from the ceiling--what? My hands were empty. The shadow of a thrush crossed the carpet; from the deepest wells of silence the wood pigeon drew its bubble of sound. "Safe, safe, safe" the pulse of the house beat softly. "The treasure buried; the room . . ." the pulse stopped short. Oh, was that the buried treasure?

A moment later the light had faded. Out in the garden then? But the trees spun darkness for a wandering beam of sun. So fine, so rare, coolly sunk beneath the surface the beam I sought always burned behind the glass. Death was the glass; death was between us, coming to the woman first, hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing all the windows; the rooms were darkened. He left it, left her, went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs. "Safe, safe, safe," the pulse of the house beat gladly. 'The Treasure yours."

The wind roars up the avenue. Trees stoop and bend this way and that. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. But the beam of the lamp falls straight from the window. The candle burns stiff and still. Wandering through the house, opening the windows, whispering not to wake us, the ghostly couple seek their joy.

"Here we slept," she says. And he adds, "Kisses without number." "Waking in the morning--" "Silver between the trees--" "Upstairs--" 'In the garden--" "When summer came--" 'In winter snowtime--" "The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.

Nearer they come, cease at the doorway. The wind falls, the rain slides silver down the glass. Our eyes darken, we hear no steps beside us; we see no lady spread her ghostly cloak. His hands shield the lantern. "Look," he breathes. "Sound asleep. Love upon their lips."

Stooping, holding their silver lamp above us, long they look and deeply. Long they pause. The wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly. Wild beams of moonlight cross both floor and wall, and, meeting, stain the faces bent; the faces pondering; the faces that search the sleepers and seek their hidden joy.

"Safe, safe, safe," the heart of the house beats proudly. "Long years--" he sighs. "Again you found me." "Here," she murmurs, "sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure--" Stooping, their light lifts the lids upon my eyes. "Safe! safe! safe!" the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart."

Oração Ao Tempo - Caetano Veloso

És um senhor tão bonito
Quanto a cara do meu filho
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Vou te fazer um pedido
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Compositor de destinos
Tambor de todos os rítmos
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Entro num acordo contigo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Por seres tão inventivo
E pareceres contínuo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
És um dos deuses mais lindos
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Que sejas ainda mais vivo
No som do meu estribilho
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Ouve bem o que te digo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Peço-te o prazer legítimo
E o movimento preciso
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Quando o tempo for propício
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

De modo que o meu espírito
Ganhe um brilho definido
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
E eu espalhe benefícios
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

O que usaremos prá isso
Fica guardado em sigilo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Apenas contigo e comigo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

E quando eu tiver saído
Para fora do teu círculo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Não serei nem terás sido
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Ainda assim acredito
Ser possível reunirmo-nos
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Num outro nível de vínculo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Portanto peço-te aquilo
E te ofereço elogios
Tempo tempo tempo tempo
Nas rimas do meu estilo
Tempo tempo tempo tempo...

Mary e Max