Saturday, February 24, 2018

Momento Presente (The Present Moment), A Poem by Valda Fogaça


The Present Moment


It is the way people live.
It is the art of time.
The time of the people.
It is the stress of the moment,
and in the present
it is discomfort, neurosis
and pain ...Are we still happy?

Will we be glad, all of us,
poor people living this
atrocious life? Nothing offends
our eyes! In our silence
we live, woe unto us!

And in our faces
we trace smiles whether
the hour is tranquil
or tight; we bring
to our eyes our sceptical
laughter, our misguided guise



Valda Fogaça, translation Indran Amirthanayagam




 MOMENTO PRESENTE


O viver da gente
É a arte do tempo
E o tempo da gente
É o estresse do momento
E no momento presente
É dissabores, neurose e dores...
Ainda somos contentes!?

Contentes seremos todos nós...
Pobres viventes de vida atroz
Nada ofende seus olhos!
Calados vivemos, pobres de nós!

E na cara trazemos o sorriso
Hora frouxo hora apertado
Traremos nos olhos o
Ceticismo no riso
Guisa desacorçoado.


Valda Fogaça




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