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Let me die a youngman's death
Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death
When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party
Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides
Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one
Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death
Drinking Sacrifice
Over rough red wine heavy foreheads bow.
It is not wine that weighs them down.
The wine that frees our thoughts the most,
it frees the least our tongue.
Like a secret blaze, sacrificial fire
is rough red wine.
I alone know before what powers
that smoke arises fine.
I alone know from what worlds
I derive my drunkenness.
Each and all stare past the rest
and listen to distant sighs.
Each and all raise their glasses to things
that none of the others see,
in dark lands where rejoicing and grief
scarce have meaning finally.
So in secret I raise here my red wine,
my sacrificial blaze,
to a pain that is mine and resembles most
the eternal consuming gale from the sea's waves.
-Karin Boye
Quero a Fome de Calar-me
Quero a fome de calar-me. O silêncio. Único
Recado que repito para que me não esqueça. Pedra
Que trago para sentar-me no banquete
A única glória no mundo — ouvir-te. Ver
Quando plantas a vinha, como abres
A fonte, o curso caudaloso
Da vergôntea — a sombra com que jorras do rochedo
Quero o jorro da escrita verdadeira, a dolorosa
Chaga do pastor
Que abriu o redil no próprio corpo e sai
Ao encontro da ovelha separada. Cerco
Os sentidos que dispersam o rebanho. Estendo as direcções, estudo-lhes
A flor — várias árvores cortadas
Continuam a altear os pássaros. Os caminhos
Seguem a linha do canivete nos troncos
As mãos acima da cabeça adornam
As águas nocturnas — pequenos
Nenúfares celestes. As estrelas como as pinhas fechadas
Caem — quero fechar-me e cair. O silêncio
Alveolar expira — e eu
Estendo-as sobre a mesa da aliança
- Daniel Faria, in "Dos Líquidos"
Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Autumn Day
Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.
Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.
- Rainer Maria Rilke