Tiny sea creatures
write messages in the sand
that no one can read.

23/10/2016

QUATRAINS DE NOSSA SENHORA

XCIII.
O pronóstico de tempo é disponível
mas ninguno lo pode ler.
O idioma é audível
mas non se pode entender.

The weather report is available
but no one can read it.
The language is audible
but cannot be understood.

22/10/2016

QUATRAINS DE NOSSA SENHORA

XCII.

O príncipe adiciona

decorazones a su ropa

mentre que su país

non funciona.

The prince adds

decorations to his clothes

while his country

does not function.

21/10/2016

#poesia #portunhol #4linhas #4lineas #4lines

QUATRAINS DE NOSSA SENHORA

XCI.
Avaritia, avaritia quae
societatem nostram destruit,
hostis principalis est,
sicut semper fuit.

Greed, greed that
destroys our society,
is the main enemy,
as it has always been.

19/10/2016

QUATRAINS DE NOSSA SENHORA

XC.
Una palavra
de vida anterior
dizer debo:
sicut sol, evolutus collucebo.

18/10/2016

QUATRAINS DE NOSSA SENHORA

LXXXIX.
O mundo está invertido,
por los pies estamo suspendido
entre lo malo y lo temido,
sen tené lo prometido.

The world is upside-down,
we are suspended by our feet
between the bad and the feared,
not having what was promised.

17 de otubro 2016

STONE TOOLS

Stone tools, shaped by
human hands,
centuries ago
at least.
I find them
on the beach,
or in mossy
streambeds,
unrecognized by others.

They are mostly
for cutting or
scraping, for
cleaning hunted
game or fish.

The one thing
they all have
in common
is a comfortable
shape, carefully worked
to fit the hand.

The shells beside them
in the sand
are older life
by millions of years,
but do not bespeak
the hopes,
the labor,
the loves,
and the tears.

16 October 2016