A selection organized and introduced by José Fanha and José Jorge Letria.
Cliffs burning sand beaches or the seventh poem of a Portuguese wanderer.
To let you have my pride
that to let you have nothing
taught you the summer the sea in July
the excitement of fishing and the morning
birds hunting the sweet lullaby
the time is passing and is everything and nothing.
To let you have the freedom
a star lighting within the no
laughter and its splendor intensity
dance of life that one summer
the glow of this brief eternity
the blue the wind the space the solitude.
To leave you nothing to leave
only one country and the adjacent islands
a rectangle and even entire sea
mountains rivers and affluent
the India that remain to be found
cliffs sandy beaches burning.
To leave you I have what I have not
to leave you no more I have
than the writing life and the strange echo
sounds and rhythms of signs and signals
metaphors that have size
Of the world I leave you. And nothing more.
Manuel Alegre
This anthology is a continuation of the project initiated by one hundred Portuguese sonnets, the two authors, researchers and writers decided to look up this time "in the word saudade as exciting as indefinable that is one of the themes present in Portuguese poetry." It's a feeling that the authors say "is our way of looking at the world and life and feel that there is a form of poetic turn into a perennial say what hurts most intimately and plagues us." It is a simple collection with several Portuguese poets and a short biography only to illustrate the path of each. To read and recite loud in the endless days. Good reading.
