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Poems
Marco Raimondi
May 2017
Idália:
Glórias! Que do abismo dão-se as profundezas
E o paradoxo de uma noite escura à luz do dia
Mas que, perto de meus olhos, brilha acesa
A minha admiração magna que por ti sentia!
Tu és tudo, mais que humano
Mas apenas minhas pálpebras podem únicas sentir teu oceano.
Gaia:
Se em teus olhos vês beleza que denominas
Doce Idália, tem-te cuidado ao mundo que te inflama
Pois se hoje cintilas vida, amanhã serão ruínas
Que sucumbirão ao destino em chamas
Mede teus louvores nos horizontes desta terra,
Pois a natureza de tudo é mãe, até da mais funérea guerra!
Idália:
Fria terra sincera e de índole intensa,
Dei minha miséria e caí em pranto
Sem Deus piedoso, a meu sofrer não há recompensa!
Que farei se deste jardim, as flores desejo tanto?
Esta ventura de nada é pedido inocente
Formosa Gaia, como tortura-me em teu semblante ardente!
Gaia:
Se mais luzes sentes deste Sol coroado,
Muito te erras, raia filha, solenemente!
Se destes vastos campos sentes o céu azulado,
Há de regraciar na sombra teu espírito verdadeiramente!
Que fique tua plena vida manchada por amor,
Te lembrarás, quando desatar teus prantos em inocente dor
Idália:
De meus verdejantes olhares pressinto
A agonia formosa que tu angustias em tudo ser
Pois tu és a umbra, acolhedor recinto
E desse despontam tuas misérias, quais tristemente hão de se manter
Decifro há pouco as águas que beijam as areias
E clareia-me o ímpeto dos dilúvios com fúria tua tão cheia
Gaia:
De fúrias acusa-me teu espanto,
Mas a ti digo, quanto vigor menos,
Para o caos não jogar-te aos mantos
E a lembrar-te o sublime, em tempos tão pequenos!
Decrete-me tuas aflições, tua desventura
Que dói em meu reflexo, que em teus olhos pouco dura?
Idália:
Não digo! Há dentro d'alma tanta vida
Que desconfio, de minha, estar trancada em gelosia
Como recamo no céu de uma ave perdida
Suspiro descorada ânsia qual me havia
Ah! Atravessa-me este calor de eras a centos
Mas inda vejo airoso sopro no troar eterno dos ventos
Gaia:
Diga a cantar-te poder que nos iriantes astros amontoaste
E do mundo, os fundamentos volvia
Destas águas de criação, tu já breve, encerraste?
Lembra-te do sol de primavera, qual no vácuo as solidões enchia
Que importa se és rasga enganadora?
Se de minhas mãos saíram as raízes desta terra traidora!?
Idália:
É o destino, luz que empalidece e minh'alma estua,
Quando campo mi'a pele palpita tua alvura,
Deste infinito toco sublimado nascer de nívea Lua
Posto que, no brilho desta, cuja noite torna pura
O presente esmaece e crio-me, do fato, fugidia errante,
Como o lírio qual coroa abre pobre, por grato instante
Glórias! Que do abismo dão-se as profundezas
E o paradoxo de uma noite escura à luz do dia
Mas que, perto de meus olhos, brilha acesa
A minha admiração magna que por ti sentia!
Tu és tudo, mais que humano
Mas apenas minhas pálpebras podem únicas sentir teu oceano.
Gaia:
Se em teus olhos vês beleza que denominas
Doce Idália, tem-te cuidado ao mundo que te inflama
Pois se hoje cintilas vida, amanhã serão ruínas
Que sucumbirão ao destino em chamas
Mede teus louvores nos horizontes desta terra,
Pois a natureza de tudo é mãe, até da mais funérea guerra!
Idália:
Fria terra sincera e de índole intensa,
Dei minha miséria e caí em pranto
Sem Deus piedoso, a meu sofrer não há recompensa!
Que farei se deste jardim, as flores desejo tanto?
Esta ventura de nada é pedido inocente
Formosa Gaia, como tortura-me em teu semblante ardente!
Gaia:
Se mais luzes sentes deste Sol coroado,
Muito te erras, raia filha, solenemente!
Se destes vastos campos sentes o céu azulado,
Há de regraciar na sombra teu espírito verdadeiramente!
Que fique tua plena vida manchada por amor,
Te lembrarás, quando desatar teus prantos em inocente dor
Idália:
De meus verdejantes olhares pressinto
A agonia formosa que tu angustias em tudo ser
Pois tu és a umbra, acolhedor recinto
E desse despontam tuas misérias, quais tristemente hão de se manter
Decifro há pouco as águas que beijam as areias
E clareia-me o ímpeto dos dilúvios com fúria tua tão cheia
Gaia:
De fúrias acusa-me teu espanto,
Mas a ti digo, quanto vigor menos,
Para o caos não jogar-te aos mantos
E a lembrar-te o sublime, em tempos tão pequenos!
Decrete-me tuas aflições, tua desventura
Que dói em meu reflexo, que em teus olhos pouco dura?
Idália:
Não digo! Há dentro d'alma tanta vida
Que desconfio, de minha, estar trancada em gelosia
Como recamo no céu de uma ave perdida
Suspiro descorada ânsia qual me havia
Ah! Atravessa-me este calor de eras a centos
Mas inda vejo airoso sopro no troar eterno dos ventos
Gaia:
Diga a cantar-te poder que nos iriantes astros amontoaste
E do mundo, os fundamentos volvia
Destas águas de criação, tu já breve, encerraste?
Lembra-te do sol de primavera, qual no vácuo as solidões enchia
Que importa se és rasga enganadora?
Se de minhas mãos saíram as raízes desta terra traidora!?
Idália:
É o destino, luz que empalidece e minh'alma estua,
Quando campo mi'a pele palpita tua alvura,
Deste infinito toco sublimado nascer de nívea Lua
Posto que, no brilho desta, cuja noite torna pura
O presente esmaece e crio-me, do fato, fugidia errante,
Como o lírio qual coroa abre pobre, por grato instante
Os versos da primeira cena não estão por vez finalizados, inclusive estes que aqui estão podem sofrer mudanças consequentes de suas adaptações, porque foram pouco revisados. Tratam-se, portanto, apenas de alguns fragmentos.
The Wicca Man
Jul 2016
Gaia sighed. Not a sigh like lovers sigh looking deeply into each other's eyes. This was a sigh of resignation. In all her long life, there had never been a time she felt as unheeded as now.
Yes, there had been a time once, a time of oneness when all her multitudinous inhabitants had coexisted, when species knew their place in the chain of life and cycled through their existence, not always at peace but with respect for one another: the lion hunted the swift gazelle which in turn fed on the fruits of the trees, parasitic birds and insects grazed upon her and they in turn were the prey of others. ‘Yes,’ Gaia thought, ‘there was a time.’
She sighed again. She remembered when humans first came to prominence in the twilight of her existence. To them, she was the Great Mother, the Creator of life. Was it not she who bore all her inhabitants and was it not to her that they all returned to continue the cycle?
Gaia felt old now, old and forgotten. That respect, that devotion was all gone now. She felt the hurt as the careful balance she had sought to maintain was eroded, not by wind and elements, but by the ravages of humans.
‘They have overstepped their bounds,’ she mused. ‘They must be taught a lesson.’
She pondered on that thought for a moment and for a moment felt a surge of effervescent warmth flow through her form. But grim reality broke through her musings and she shuddered at the horror of the reality. Her memories were dim and misty now. She could remember her birth but only just. How she had taken form from the cosmic flotsam and jetsam all those countless aeons ago. She remembered the youthful exuberance she exhibited then and she smiled in embarrassed recollection. No life could have survived upon her surface then for she was wild and wilful, hot and inhospitable, prone to savage outpourings. But she grew, she gained the experience of time passing, and slowly, slowly, her voluble exterior became calm and gradually her form was blanketed in a kindly cloak of life-sustaining gases. The soup of her oceans spawned and multiplied a myriad of lives and forms and she thought of how many she had seen come and go.
The present again broke through her meditation of what has gone before. Now she was approaching the nighttime of her existence and, like the old elephant, one of her favourite inhabitants, she knew her time was near. She had tried so hard to adapt, to compromise but, like a cancer, the human scourge had spread beyond all control. Oh yes, there had been a few voices raised in concern and some, she knew, spoke with all the sincerity she knew the species was capable of. But, those voices went unheeded, listened to by a few but ignored by the many. Gaia was tired. She hurt. Sol bore down on her savagely, relentlessly and she felt her protective shroud growing weaker and weaker as every moment passed. It was now, the time had come...
© David Simons 2001 (revised 2016)
Yes, there had been a time once, a time of oneness when all her multitudinous inhabitants had coexisted, when species knew their place in the chain of life and cycled through their existence, not always at peace but with respect for one another: the lion hunted the swift gazelle which in turn fed on the fruits of the trees, parasitic birds and insects grazed upon her and they in turn were the prey of others. ‘Yes,’ Gaia thought, ‘there was a time.’
She sighed again. She remembered when humans first came to prominence in the twilight of her existence. To them, she was the Great Mother, the Creator of life. Was it not she who bore all her inhabitants and was it not to her that they all returned to continue the cycle?
Gaia felt old now, old and forgotten. That respect, that devotion was all gone now. She felt the hurt as the careful balance she had sought to maintain was eroded, not by wind and elements, but by the ravages of humans.
‘They have overstepped their bounds,’ she mused. ‘They must be taught a lesson.’
She pondered on that thought for a moment and for a moment felt a surge of effervescent warmth flow through her form. But grim reality broke through her musings and she shuddered at the horror of the reality. Her memories were dim and misty now. She could remember her birth but only just. How she had taken form from the cosmic flotsam and jetsam all those countless aeons ago. She remembered the youthful exuberance she exhibited then and she smiled in embarrassed recollection. No life could have survived upon her surface then for she was wild and wilful, hot and inhospitable, prone to savage outpourings. But she grew, she gained the experience of time passing, and slowly, slowly, her voluble exterior became calm and gradually her form was blanketed in a kindly cloak of life-sustaining gases. The soup of her oceans spawned and multiplied a myriad of lives and forms and she thought of how many she had seen come and go.
The present again broke through her meditation of what has gone before. Now she was approaching the nighttime of her existence and, like the old elephant, one of her favourite inhabitants, she knew her time was near. She had tried so hard to adapt, to compromise but, like a cancer, the human scourge had spread beyond all control. Oh yes, there had been a few voices raised in concern and some, she knew, spoke with all the sincerity she knew the species was capable of. But, those voices went unheeded, listened to by a few but ignored by the many. Gaia was tired. She hurt. Sol bore down on her savagely, relentlessly and she felt her protective shroud growing weaker and weaker as every moment passed. It was now, the time had come...
© David Simons 2001 (revised 2016)
Ok, not strictly speaking a poem but poetic prose (!?). Take from this what you will.