SOPHIA - I´M Your Lovely MASTER.

Ergo uma Rosa!

Mily...una noches!!!...Las Mil y Una Noches (en árabe, ألف ليلة وليلة Alf layla wa-layla —lit. Mil noches y una noche—; en persa, هزار و یک شب, Hazār-o yak shab)...Allô allô, Tunis!

Recollections of the Arabian Nights

Recollections of the Arabian Nights

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809–1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson

When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free

In the silken sail of infancy,

The tide of time flow'd back with me,

      The forward-flowing tide of time;

And many a sheeny summer-morn,

Adown the Tigris I was borne,

By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold,

High-walled gardens green and old;

True Mussulman was I and sworn,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Anight my shallop, rustling thro'

The low and bloomed foliage, drove

The fragrant, glistening deeps, and clove

The citron-shadows in the blue:

By garden porches on the brim,

The costly doors flung open wide,

Gold glittering thro' lamplight dim,

And broider'd sofas on each side:

      In sooth it was a goodly time,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Often, where clear-stemm'd platans guard

The outlet, did I turn away

The boat-head down a broad canal

From the main river sluiced, where all

The sloping of the moon-lit sward

Was damask-work, and deep inlay

Of braided blooms unmown, which crept

Adown to where the water slept.

      A goodly place, a goodly time,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

A motion from the river won

Ridged the smooth level, bearing on

My shallop thro' the star-strown calm,

Until another night in night

I enter'd, from the clearer light,

Imbower'd vaults of pillar'd palm,

Imprisoning sweets, which, as they clomb

Heavenward, were stay'd beneath the dome

      Of hollow boughs.—A goodly time,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Still onward; and the clear canal

Is rounded to as clear a lake.

From the green rivage many a fall

Of diamond rillets musical,

Thro' little crystal arches low

Down from the central fountain's flow

Fall'n silver-chiming, seem'd to shake

The sparkling flints beneath the prow.

      A goodly place, a goodly time,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Above thro' many a bowery turn

A walk with vary-colour'd shells

Wander'd engrain'd. On either side

All round about the fragrant marge

From fluted vase, and brazen urn

In order, eastern flowers large,

Some dropping low their crimson bells

Half-closed, and others studded wide

      With disks and tiars, fed the time

      With odour in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Far off, and where the lemon-grove

In closest coverture upsprung,

The living airs of middle night

Died round the bulbul as he sung;

Not he: but something which possess'd

The darkness of the world, delight,

Life, anguish, death, immortal love,

Ceasing not, mingled, unrepress'd,

      Apart from place, withholding time,

      But flattering the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Black the garden-bowers and grots

Slumber'd: the solemn palms were ranged

Above, unwoo'd of summer wind:

A sudden splendour from behind

Flush'd all the leaves with rich gold-green,

And, flowing rapidly between

Their interspaces, counterchanged

The level lake with diamond-plots

      Of dark and bright. A lovely time,

      For it was in the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Dark-blue the deep sphere overhead,

Distinct with vivid stars inlaid,

Grew darker from that under-flame:

So, leaping lightly from the boat,

With silver anchor left afloat,

In marvel whence that glory came

Upon me, as in sleep I sank

In cool soft turf upon the bank,

      Entranced with that place and time,

      So worthy of the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Thence thro' the garden I was drawn—

A realm of pleasance, many a mound,

And many a shadow-chequer'd lawn

Full of the city's stilly sound,

And deep myrrh-thickets blowing round

The stately cedar, tamarisks,

Thick rosaries of scented thorn,

Tall orient shrubs, and obelisks

      Graven with emblems of the time,

      In honour of the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

With dazed vision unawares

From the long alley's latticed shade

Emerged, I came upon the great

Pavilion of the Caliphat.

Right to the carven cedarn doors,

Flung inward over spangled floors,

Broad-based flights of marble stairs

Ran up with golden balustrade,

      After the fashion of the time,

      And humour of the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

The fourscore windows all alight

As with the quintessence of flame,

A million tapers flaring bright

From twisted silvers look'd to shame

The hollow-vaulted dark, and stream'd

Upon the mooned domes aloof

In inmost Bagdat, till there seem'd

Hundreds of crescents on the roof

      Of night new-risen, that marvellous time,

      To celebrate the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Then stole I up, and trancedly

Gazed on the Persian girl alone,

Serene with argent-lidded eyes

Amorous, and lashes like to rays

Of darkness, and a brow of pearl

Tressed with redolent ebony,

In many a dark delicious curl,

Flowing beneath her rose-hued zone;

      The sweetest lady of the time,

      Well worthy of the golden prime

            Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Six columns, three on either side,

Pure silver, underpropt a rich

Throne of the massive ore, from which

Down-droop'd, in many a floating fold,

Engarlanded and diaper'd

With inwrought flowers, a cloth of gold.

Thereon, his deep eye laughter-stirr'd

With merriment of kingly pride,

      Sole star of all that place and time,

      I saw him—in his golden prime,

            THE GOOD HAROUN ALRASCHID!

Asie                                                                        1. Asia

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Asie, Asie. Asie! Vieux pays merveilleux des contes de nourrice  Où dort la fantaisie comme une impératrice  En sa forêt emplie de mystère.  Asie, je voudrais m'en aller avec la goélette  Qui se berce ce soir dans le port,  Mystérieuse et solitaire,  Et qui déploie enfin ses voiles violettes  Comme un immense oiseau de nuit dans le ciel d'or. Je voudrais m'en aller vers des îles de fleurs  En écoutant chanter la mer perverse  Sur un vieux rythme ensorceleur.  Je voudrais voir Damas et les villes de Perse  Avec les minarets légers dans l'air. Je voudrais voir de beaux turbans de soie  Sur des visages noirs aux dents claires;  Je voudrais voir des yeux sombres d'amour  Et des prunelles brillantes de joie  En des peaux jaunes comme des oranges;  Je voudrais voir des vêtements de velours  Et des habits à longues franges. Je voudrais voir des calumets entre des bouches Tout entourées de barbe blanche; Je voudrais voir d'âpres marchands aux regards louches, Et des cadis, et des vizirs  Qui du seul mouvement de leur doigt qui se penche Accordent vie ou mort au gré de leur désir. Je voudrais voir la Perse, et l'Inde, et puis la Chine, Les mandarins ventrus sous les ombrelles,  Et les princesses aux mains fines,  Et les lettrés qui se querrellent  Sur la poésie et sur la beauté;  Je voudrais m'attarder au palais enchanté Et comme un voyageur étranger  Contemple à loisir des paysages peints  Sur des étoffes en des cadres de sapin  Avec un personnage au milieu d'un verger; Je voudrais voir des assassins souriant  Du bourreau qui coupe un cou d'innocent  Avec son grand sabre courbé d'Orient. Je voudrais voir des pauvres et des reines;  Je voudrais voir des roses et du sang;  Je voudrais voir mourir d'amour ou bien de haine.  Et puis m'en revenir plus tard  Narrer mon aventure aux curieux de rêves  En élevant comme Sinbad ma vieille tasse arabe  De temps en temps jusqu'à mes lèvres  Pour interrompre le conte avec art ...

Asia, Asia, Asia!  Olden and wondrous land of tales dreamt by nursemaids, Where sleeping fantasy lies like an empress fair  In her forest o'erflowing with mystery. Asia ... I should like to set out aboard the sea-bound schooner Which is rocking this evening in port,  Mysterious and solitary;  And which at last unfurls its flutt'ring sails of purple  Like an immense night bird aloft in the gold'n sky. I should like to sail off towards islands of flow'rs While list'ning to the perverse sea singing In its old and bewitching rhythm. I'd like to see Damascus, and cities of Persia Where light minarets pierce through the air.* I'd like to see those fine turbans of silk Over black faces with white teeth gleaming; I should wish to see eyes shaded with love From which pupils shine brilliantly with joy Against complexions as tawny as oranges;  I should like to see fine vestments made of velvet  And flowing robes with long, long fringes. I'd like to see earthenware pipes stuck into pursed mouths Wholly surrounded by white whiskers;  I'd like to see rough-edged merchants cast dirty glances,  And the qadis and the viziers,  Who with just the mere movement of their crooked finger Can dispense life or death at their desire's whim.  I'd see Persia, and India, then also China: Plump mandarins sitting under umbrellas,  And princesses with hands most lithe,  And wise scholars who yet are quarr'ling Over poetry and over beauty; I should like to pause in an enchanted palace  And, like any foreign traveller,  Contemplate at leisure those paintings of landscapes, On finest fabrics in frames crafted out of fir, Picturing someone in the middle of a grove;  I'd like to see cruel assassins smile as An executioner lops a guiltless head With his big Oriental scimitar. I'd like to see base paupers and grand queens, too;  I'd like to see red roses and red blood;  I'd like to see death caused by love, or else by hatred. And later then I'll return home To share my adventure with curious young dreamers; And I will raise--just like Sinbad--my old Arabian goblet  Up to my lips every now and then, Interrupting the tale for artful effect ...  * For a literal translation use: "With light minarets in the air."

2. La flûte enchantée                                                   2. The Enchanted Flute

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L'ombre est douce et mon maître dort,  Coiffé d'un bonnet conique de soie  Et son long nez jaune en sa barbe blanche. Mais moi, je suis éveillée encore  Et j'écoute au dehors  Une chanson de flûte où s'épanche  Tour à tour la tristesse ou la joie.  Un air tour à tour langoureux ou frivole,  Que mon amoureux chéri joue. Et quand je m'approche de la croisée  Il me semble que chaque note s'envole  De la flûte vers ma joue  Comme un mystérieux baiser.

Darkness soothes and my master sleeps, Coiffed in a cone-shaped night-bonnet of silk, With his long nose yellow on his white whiskers. But I, I'm wakened and roused again, And I hear from outdoors The lone song of a flute o'erflowing At first with sorrow but then with such joy! An air turning from languishing to frivolous, Which my own dearest lover plays. And as I move closer to the window, To me it's as though each note has come winging From his flute onto my cheek Like a mysterious caress.

 3. L'indifférent                                                              3. The Indifferent One

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Tes yeux sont doux comme ceux d'une fille,  Jeune étranger,  Et la courbe fine  De ton beau visage de duvet ombragé  Est plus séduisante encore de ligne.  Ta lèvre chante sur le pas de ma porte  Une langue inconnue et charmante  Comme une musique fausse ... Entre! Et que mon vin te réconforte ...  Mais non, tu passes  Et de mon seuil je te vois t'éloigner  Me faisant un dernier geste avec grâce  Et la hanche légèrement ployée  Par ta démarche féminine et lasse ...

Your eyes are soft like those of any maiden, My young stranger, And the delicate curve Of your fine features, shadowed with a silk down, Forms an even more seductive outline. Your lips form a song at the foot of my doorstep In a tongue incoherent yet charming, Rather like music tuned falsely ... Enter! And let my wine give you refreshment ... But no ... you pass on, And from my threshold I watch you depart As you make a last graceful gesture for me, With a curved hip casually swaying From your saunter that's both girlish and languid ...

 

 

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Love is the Master.

Abvum D'bashmaia

Abvum D'bashmaia
Netcádash shimóch
Teté malcutách una
Nehué tcevianách aicana d'bashimáia af b'arha
Hóvlan lácma d'suncanán iaomána
Uashbocan háubein uahtehín aicána dáf quinan shbuocán l'haiabéin
Uéla tahlan l'nesiúna, éla patssan min bixa
Metúl diláhie malcutá uaháila uateshbúcta láhlám,
Almín.

Yeshua, ( c.06 a.c. - c.30 d.c. ), Belém, Judéia.

Cin' amorando.

Close To You – A Korean Love Poem

가까이 다가가고 싶었지만 가까이 다가갈 수 없었습니다.

내가 가까이 다가가면 다가가는 만큼

그대가 멀어질 것 같아서..



가까이 다가가면..

내가 다가가면...

그대는 영영 떠나갈 것 같아서

가까이 다가갈 수 없었습니다.



그대가 떠나간 뒤, 그 상처와 그리움

감당할 수 없을 것 같아서

가까이 다가가고 싶었지만

더이상 가까이 다가갈 수 없었습니다.



한 순간 가까웁다 영영 그대를 떠나게 하는 것보다

거리는 조금 떨어져 있지만 오래도록 그대를

바라보고 싶는 마음이 더 앞섰기에...



Although I wanted to come closer,

I couldn’t possibly go closer

because the more I come closer,

I felt that the more you will drift away from me



If I come closer..

If I really do,

I feel that you will leave me forever

that’s why I couldn’t come closer



If you’d leave me, I‘d be left with those pain and loneliness...

I didn’t think I would be able to handle it

So although I wanted to come closer,

I didn’t dare to come closer



I long to have one moment close to you

but you would leave me forever.

So I kept the distance between us,

as I wanted to be at a place where I will always be able to see you.





내 눈엔...

너 만 보인다는말...

난...거짓말이라고 생각해...

내눈엔 많은 사람들이 보여..

그 치만..그 많은 사람들 중에서

" 너만을 찾게돼..."



In my eyes...

The saying that you're the only one I see...

That, I believe, is a lie...

In my eyes, I see many people...

But, amidst this group of people,

I only search for you.



세상에 완벽한 남자와

완벽한 여자는없다.

모자라는 남자와

모자라는 여자가 만들어가는

완벽한 사랑만이 있을뿐이다.



There's no such thing as the perfect guy.

And there's no such thing as the perfect girl.

But only a less than perfect guy

And a less than perfect girl can make

a perfect love.

LULU. ( chat noir avec. )

Scrubbie's Sonnet

Her liquid gaze could melt the coldest heart,

Her perfect face framed ‘round by ebony;
Since early on her dancing was an art –
Lithe hands and limbs in quaking ecstasy.
Not one to walk on eggshells, biting wit
And knife-blade tongue would often trouble make;
But unrelenting, in the face of it
She’d stand, too proud to let it see her break.
From featured player to forgotten star,
To author/critic, razor-edged and quick:
A sharpened, honey-coated scimitar,
A heady blend of sex and arsenic.
With such a life – complex beyond compare –
How strange her strongest legacy’s her hair.

S O P H I A: Goddess of Wisdom § God' s Wife...Fátima!...to you!

Prayrs to the Holy Sophia   Top

Sophia! You of the whirling wings, circling, encompassing energy of God: you quicken the world in your clasp. One wing soars in heaven, one wing sweeps the earth, and the third flies all around us. Praise to Sophia! Let all the earth praise her! -Hildegard of Bingen

"Sophia" Copyright Hrana Janto Used by permission of the artist. Notice her wings, her "pregnant" belly

The Creed of the Holy Spirit
(by Unknown author. Please email if you know who wrote this!)
I believe in the Blessed Sophia.
I believe that she is Our Heavenly Father's Beloved Daughter.
I believe our souls dwelled with them in the Beginning, in harmony and love.
I believe that Sophia is the Divine Daughter.
That She lives in all women, and her strength and grace inspires all;
And she has sinned, learnt and is now strong and free.
I believe that Sophia is the Great Mother.
She is the Eema, the image of the hight of our strength;
And she has tutored me along Her Holy Path.
I believe that Sophia is the Holy Soul.
The Pneuma, the inner Crone of death and understanding within me;
And that She will bring completion in my waning days.
I believe that Sophia is the Spirit of God.
She is the Celestial Mother, and unites the Father and Child;
And She has given us knowledge of Their nurturing ways.
I believe in the Aeons, the Spirits, the gods of the Unknown God.
They are ruled by Sophia, they are Her children;
They all come from the Mother and to Her they shall return.
I believe in Reincarnation.
Her soul allows us to cycle throughout the prinsonhosue of matter;
Until we achieve the Liberation of the Light of Her Unknown Source.
I live in duty to restore honour to The Holy Spirit.
In prayer and reverence of all Her rituals;
From the masks of saints and goddesses, to restore honour to the True Queen.

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The Hail Sophia
Hail Sophia, filled with Light, the Christ is with thee. Blessed art thou among the Aeons and blessed is the liberator of thy Light, Jesus. Holy Sophia, Mother of all Gods, pray to the Light for us thy children, now and in the hour of our death, Amen.

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Prayer To The Holy Spirit
Most loving Father of the poor, send your light down from Heaven, your Gift of most splendid gifts, the Light that penetrates all, the Fountain of deep consolation. Come, O Divine Sophia.
Come, Sweet Host of the soul. Give everyone rest from their efforts, respite from their hard labor, be their gentle breeze in moments of fire, the joy that dries up their tears and comforts their sorrows.
Enter the deepest depth of their soul, Oh Divine Sophia, and enrich it. Look at the emptiness within when you are not presence. Look at the power of sin when you do not breathe within them. Water the dry earth of their soul, heal their wounded heart, wash them clean of all dirt, place the warmth of life back within their cold hearts, conquer their uncontrollable spirit, guide them when the way is confusing.
Pour out on your servants your seven gifts according to their faith. In your goodness and blessings give them the strength they need, save all who are looking for salvation, and bless us all with your eternal joy.

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Prayer to Sophia                                                              Top
Savior of the World, Sunny Lady,
Patroness of Powers, Sophia - Wisdom of God,
Invincible Almighty's Hand, Bless the World by the sign of Cross,
incinerate the Hearths of the world fundamentalism,
and erect the City of Saints by the Intercession of the Fiery Hierarchy
of the triumphant Church and crowd of angelic ranks,
save My Land and all the World!

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Faith, Hope and Charity, Daughters of Sophia
O holy and most praiseworthy ones, Faith, Hope and Charity, and wise mother Sophia of these glorious daughters: to you do we now hasten in heartfelt prayer, for what better representation can we have than faith, hope and charity, the three cornerstone virtues, which, bearing their names, ye embodied in fact. We entreat you to shield us, save us and keep us in every sorrow and trouble, because you are good and loveth humankind. We pray that your Mother Sophia's glory, like a sun that never setteth, be with us in our humble prayers; may the Godhead forgive our sins (mistakes) and iniquities (transgressions), and have mercy on us who are forgetful of our Being-ness. Pray indeed for us, ye holy daughters, also unto our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of Man, and the Holy Bride Magdalene, to whom we practice to be present with, together with his Father and Mother, the All-holy, and Good, and Life-creating Sophia, who are from the Everlasting. We join our energy and our consciousness to the Everlasting the combined Godhead, merging with their presence now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen in the Now.
Pictured Left: Faith, Hope & Charity charm very popular charm in the Victorian era and today.
 
 
 
 
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Prayer to Sophia                                                    Top
Oh,
Great Light,
Hidden within this darkness,
Unlimited Fire,
Brilliant Emanation,
Sapientia Dei,
Beauty and wonder
that fills me like water to a sponge,
Sophia,
Holy Spirit,
Rising Dawn,
Lily of the Valleys,
Tree of Life,
Behold,
You Are Beautiful!

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Hail, Lady of Light
Hail, Lady of Light,
Mystical Lover of my spirit.
Blessed are you, Woman of Wisdom,
and blessed are the gifts you bestow on us your children.
Holy Sophia, goddess who leads to the One God,
fill me with your emptiness,
and darken my spirit with your light,
Amen.

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Salve Regina (Sophia)
Hail, Queen of Heaven,
Mother most merciful,
our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
You lead us on this pilgrim journey,
and to you we cry when we seem mired,
in the pain of exile from our true home.
And, gentle Mother Sophia, you soothe our tears.
Turn then, most gracious Advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us,
and bring us into the unity of the Pleroma,
with your heavenly consort, our Lord Jesus Christ.

THE TALE OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE!...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY SWEET LADY...FÁTIMA!!!

A UNA BELLA DESCONOCIDA

Sé que eres bella, y no sé
mujer no vista y soñada,
no mirada y admirada,
qué flor dedicaré.
Sé que eres bellas, y no sé...

Para ti todas las flores.
y así el que prefieras tomas
entre todos sus aromas
y entre todos sus colores,
Para ti todas las flores...

para ti todo el amor:
el ardiente y el rendido,
el dulce y el encendido,
el mudo y el decidor.
para ti todo el amor!    (Manuel Machado)

Muito cedo, porém, volve os olhos Orfeu
E de novo ela cai, e de novo morreu!
Como conseguirá as três Parcas domar?
Crime não houve teu, se não é crime amar.
E, agora, debruçado sobre os montes,
Junto à água das fontes
Ou onde o Hebro abre seu caminho
Orfeu chora sozinho
E, em luto e pranto, invoca a alma querida,
Para sempre perdida!
Agora, todo em fogo, clama, ardente,
Sobre a neve do Ródope imponente,
E ei-lo, furioso como o vento, voa
E, em torno, o ardor da bacanal ressoa.
Está morrendo, vede, e a amada canta,
Seu nome vem-lhe aos lábios, à garganta,
"Eurídice", a palavra derradeira.
"Eurídice", dizem as matas,
"Eurídice", as cascatas,
Repete o nome a natureza inteira

Orpheus and Eurydice - Robert Henryson

Heir begynnis the traitie of orpheus kyng and how he yeid
to hewyn and to hel to seik his quene and ane othir ballad
in the lattir end.

1: The nobilnes and grete magnificence
2: Off prince or lord quha list to magnify
3: His grete ancester and linyall descense
4: Suld first extoll and his genology
5: So that his hert he mycht enclyne thare by
6: The more to vertu and to worthynes
7: Herand reherse his eldirs gentilnes

8: It is contrair the lawis of nature
9: A gentill man to be degenerate
10: Noucht folowing of his progenitoure
11: The worthy reule and the lordly estate
12: A ryall renk for to be rusticate
13: Is bot a monster in comparison
14: Had in despyte and foule derision

15: I say this be the grete lordis of grewe
16: Quhilk sett thair hert and all thair hale curage
17: Thair fadirs steppis iustly to persewe
18: Eking the worschip of thair hye lynage
19: The ancient and sad wyse-men of age
20: War tendouris to the yong and insole

The Sonnets to Orpheusby Rainer Maria Rilke

Silent friend of many distances, feel
how space dilates with each breath of yours.
Among the rafters of dark belfries peal
your own sweet tones. Your predators

will grow strong upon such fare.
Know transformation in its varied sign.
Which experience produces most despair?
If drinking offend, transform yourself to wine.

Be, in this immensity of night,
the magic force at your sense's crossroad;
the purpose of their mysterious plan.

And though you fade from earthly sight,
declare to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water say: I am.

Eu podia chamar-te pátria minha...dar-te o mais lindo nome português...dar-te um nome de rainha...que este amor...é de Pedro por Inês...(happy birthday...T....o you!)

Eu podia chamar-te pátria minha

dar-te o mais lindo nome português

podia dar-te um nome de rainha

que este amor é de Pedro por Inês.





Mas não há forma não há verso não há leito

para este fogo amor para este rio.

Como dizer um coração fora do peito?

Meu amor transbordou. E eu sem navio.





Gostar de ti é um poema que não digo

que não há taça amor para este vinho

não há guitarra nem cantar de amigo

não há flor não há flor de verde pinho.





Não há barco nem trigo não há trevo

não há palavras para dizer esta canção.

Gostar de ti é um poema que não escrevo.

Que há um rio sem leito. E eu sem coração.





Manuel Alegre

L O V E S T O R Y !!!...R O M E U - J U L I E T..MISHAAL..Rwalpindi - Pakistan!...to you my friend!." LOVE IS THE MASTER" - RUMI.

Romeus and Juliet: Lines 1-24
There is beyond the Alps, a town of ancient fame,
Whose bright renown yet shineth clear: Verona men it name;
Built in a happy time, built on a fertile soil
Maintained by the heavenly fates, and by the townish toil
The fruitful hills above, the pleasant vales below,
The silver stream with channel deep, that thro' the town doth flow,
The store of springs that serve for use, and eke for ease,
And other more commodities, which profit may and please,--
Eke many certain signs of things betid of old,
10
To fill the hungry eyes of those that curiously behold,
Do make this town to be preferred above the rest
Of Lombard towns, or at the least, compared with the best.
In which while Escalus as prince alone did reign,
To reach reward unto the good, to pay the lewd with pain,
Alas, I rue to think, an heavy hap befell:
Which Boccace scant, not my rude tongue, were able forth to tell.
Within my trembling hand, my pen doth shake for fear,
And, on my cold amazéd head, upright doth stand my hair.
But sith she doth command, whose hest I must obey,20

In mourning verse, a woeful chance to tell I will assay.
Help, learnéd Pallas, help, ye Muses with your art,
Help, all ye damnéd fiends to tell of joys returned to smart.
Help eke, ye sisters three, my skilless pen t'indite:
For you it caused which I, alas, unable am to write.

"Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
—Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V[31]
Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love.[29] Romeo and Juliet have become





Come and see, you who are negligent,
Montagues and Capulets, Monaldi and Filippeschi:
One lot already grieving, the other in fear.
—Dante, Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, canto VI, ll. 106-8




"O brawling love, O loving hate,
O any thing of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!"
—Romeo, Act I Scene






"Romeo and Juliet"

A love-struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made.
Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade
Says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"

Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack!"
He's underneath the window, she's singing, "Hey la, my boyfriend's back.
You shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that...
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?"
Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I bet when you exploded into my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on different streets, they're both the streets of shame.
Both dirty, both mean, yes, in the dream it was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real.
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver,
You can fall for chains of gold,
You can fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold.
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah!
Now you just say, "Oh Romeo? Yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him".

Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry.
You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die".
There's a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can't do the talk, like the talk on TV
And I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be.
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you.
I can't do anything, 'cept be in love with you!
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be.
All I do is keep the beat... and bad company.
Now all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme,
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time!

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry.
You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die".
There's a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
And a love-struck Romeo sings a street-suss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
He says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"
You and me babe, how about it?

"Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said Juliet, baby, you're my flame
Thou givest fever..."
—Peggy Lee's rendition of "Fever".

CHAT NOIR...avec...J O S E P H I N E!T H A N K S.

Poem For Josephine
Sizzling hot chocolate
and coffee with a dash of liquer.
A snowfall
winter in paris
chocolate chaux en hiver
ballet slippers hanging from
the ballet bars
a grammophone left playing
while no ones in the room.
See that lady in luxurious white fur
her coffee colored skin enchanting as she makes
her way down the boulevard
a leopard in diamonds
her voice rouses a nation
the swivel of her hips enchant the world.
See that star bursting open into the firmaments?
That
is
Josephine

Some say that Josephine Baker's life was "more French than the French." She lived in France for the rest of her life, often touring Europe, and during the height of the Jazz Age was know as the "Jazz Cleopatra." Her flamboyant style and patriotic nature made her an unforgettable phenomenon for the next 50 years.

The following is a poem by Josephine Baker written in 1930:
At the age of eight I was already working to calm the hunger of my family.
I have suffered: hunger, cold.
I have a family
They said I was homely
That I danced like an ape
Then I was less homely - Cosmetics
I was hooted
Then I was applauded - the crowd
I continued to dance - I loved jazz
I continued to sing - I loved sadness; my soul is sick
I had an opportunity - Destiny
I had a mascot - a panther - Ancestral superstition
I made a tour of the world - In third class and in Pullman
I am moral
They said I was the reverse
I do not smoke - I have white teeth
I do not drink - I am an American
I have a religion
I adore children
I love flowers
I aid the poor - I have suffered much
I love the animals - they are the sincerest
I sing and dance still - Perseverance
I earn much money - I do not love money
I save my money - for the time when I am no longer an attraction.

Ma chu Picchu...Mar...is...a...mar...

Lonely as a cloud

What shall we sing, my friends?
In what shall we rejoice?
There alone our song lives,
Where our ancestors were born.
On Earth, where they lived...
I suffer here on Earth...
He who gives life conceals

Men in a casket and in an ark....
But shall I see them? Shall my eyes see
The faces of my father and my mother?
Can they offer me their song,
Their words, which I search for?
Here is no one,
They have left us as orphans, here on Earth.


Canto Triste
(de Nezahualcoyotl)
Oye un canto en mi corazón:

me pongo a llorar,

me lleno de dolor:

nos vamos entre flores,

hemos de dejar esta Tierra:

¡estamos prestados unos a otros:

iremos a la casa del Sol!



¡Póngame yo un collar

de variadas flores:

en mis manos estén,

florezcan en mí guirnaldas.

Hemos de dejar esta Tierra:

estamos prestados unos a otros:

iremos a la casa del Sol!



Cuicatli Quicaqui
(de Nezahualcoyotl)
Cuicatli quicaqui

in noyol nichoca:

ye nicnotlamati

tiya xochitica

tic cauhtehuazque

tlalticpac ye nican

titotlanehuia

o tiyazque ichan.



Ma nicnocozcati

nepapan xochitl

ma nomac on mani

ma nocpacxochihui.

Tic cauhtehuazque

tlalticpac ye nican

zan titotlanehuia

o tiyazque ichan.

To Marisa...Mister Alberto, Lady Josefina, Tânia and Marcos...thanks.

TAJ MAHAL POEM OF LOVE...TO FANNY, COUNTESS OF BRUGES...let the splendor of the diamond, pearl and ruby vanish like the magic shimmer of the rainbow.

Taj Mahal

The Taj, mayhap, to you may seem, a mark of love supreme
You may hold this beauteous vale in great esteem;
Yet, my love, meet me hence at some other place!
How odd for the poor folk to frequent royal resorts;
‘Tis strange that the amorous souls should tread the regal paths
Trodden once by mighty kings and their proud consorts.
Behind the facade of love my dear, you had better seen,
The marks of imperial might that herein lie screen’d
You who take delight in tombs of kings deceased,
Should have seen the hutments dark where you and I did wean.
Countless men in this world must have loved and gone,
Who would say their loves weren’t truthful or strong?
But in the name of their loves, no memorial is raised
For they too, like you and me, belonged to the common throng.

These structures and sepulchres, these ramparts and forts,
These relics of the mighty dead are, in fact, no more
Than the cancerous tumours on the face of earth,
Fattened on our ancestor’s very blood and bones.
They too must have loved, my love, whose hands had made,
This marble monument, nicely chiselled and shaped
But their dear ones lived and died, unhonoured, unknown,
None burnt even a taper on their lowly graves.

This bank of Jamuna, this edifice, these groves and lawns,
These carved walls and doors, arches and alcoves,
An emperor on the strength of wealth, Has played with us a cruel joke.
Meet me hence, my love, at some other place.

JUST SOPHIA.

Welcome the goddess of the moon and the night,
Bless us with wisdom, bless us with might.
Give us tonight, the power to heal,
The power to release the magick so real.

Surround us with light, the light of divine,
Embrace us with love of perfection so fine.
Give us the music, so we can dance,
And chant a song to enter a trance.

Welcome the god of the sun and the day,
To you we do turn in times of dismay.
Give us today, the power to bind,
All the unloving, all the unkind.

Surround us with light, the light of divine,
Embrace us with love of perfection so fine.
Give us the music, so we can dance,
And chant a song to enter a trance.

R E M E M B E R


TÊTÊIA



Rapazes da "Estrela da Marinha"

Se vocês ainda se lembram de Têtêia

Aquela desaforada

Filha d'Antónha que vendia cuscuz

Na Porta de Madêral

E de nhô Piduca

Que era catraieiro

—Venham comigo!



Rapazes da "Estrela da Marinha"

Se vocês ainda se lembram de Têtêia

Bonitona e desaforada



Que dava que falar pelo Carnaval

Porque além de bonitona e desaforada

Era luxénta e dançadêra

—Venham comigo!



Rapazes da "Estrela da Marinha"

Se vocês ainda se lembram de Têtêia

Que fez filho com Léla de Bia de Jonzóna

Que fugiu para a Venezuela

—Venham comigo!



Venham comigo

E vamos bradar junto a praia

(Inconsoladamente — como meninos!...)

Que nao vendemos Têtêia...



Vamos levar todas as nossas lágrimas ao mar

Para que as roças nos devolvam Têtêia

LOVE STORY!...(AKHENATEN - NEFERTITI)...to AMME...TUZLA - BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA...

You arise beauteous in the horizon of the heavens
Oh living Aten who creates life.
When you shine forth in the Eastern horizon you fill every land with your beauty.
You are so beautiful: you are great; gleaming and high over every land.
Your rays embrace the lands and all you have created;
You are Re and reach out to all your creations, and hold them for your beloved Son.
You are afar, but your rays touch the earth;
Men see you, but know not your ways.

When you set in the Western horizon of the sky
The earth is in darkness like the dead.
People sleep in their rooms with covered heads;
They do not see each other.
If all their possessions were stolen
They would know it not.
Every lion leaves its lair;
All snakes bite;
Darkness covers all.
The world is silent
For the creator rests in his horizon.

When you rise from the horizon the earth grows bright;
You shine as the Aten in the sky and drive away the darkness;
When your rays gleam forth, the whole of Egypt is festive.
People wake and stand on their feet
For you have lifted them up.
They wash their limbs and take up their clothes and dress;
They raise their arms to you in adoration.

Then the whole of the land does its work;
All cattle enjoy their pastures,
Trees and plants grow green,
Birds fly up from their nests
And raise their wings in praise of your spirit.
Goats frisk on their feet,
And all fluttering and flying things come alive
Because you shine on them.
Boats sail up and downstream,
All ways are opened because you have appeared.
The fish in the river leap up to you
Your rays are in the deep of the sea.

You are the creator of the issue in woman,
The seed in men;
You give life to the son in his mother's womb
Soothing him so he does not cry
Oh nurse within the womb.

You give the breath of life to all your creations
From the day they are born.
You open their mouths and give them sustenance.
To the chick that cries "tweet" while still in the egg
You give breath in the shell to let him live,
And make the time for him to break the shell
And come out of the egg at the moment for him to chirp
And patter on his two feet.

How manifold are your works: they are secret from our sight
Oh unique god, no other is like you.
You made the earth after your own heart
When you were alone. All men, herds
And flocks, all on the earth that goes on its feet;
and all that is in the sky and flies with its wings.
The land of Egypt, the foreign lands of Syria and Nubia too -
You put every man in his place and fulfil his needs;
Each one with his sustenance and the days of his life counted,
Their language is different,
And they look different;
Their complexions are different,
For you have distinguished the nations.
You make the seasons to bring into being all your creatures;
Winter to cool them,
And the heat of summer to come from you.
You have made the sky afar off
So when you rise you can see all you have made.
You alone rise in the form of the living Aten
Shining afar, yet close at hand.
You make millions of forms out of you alone,
Towns and villages, fields, roads and river.
All eyes see you before them
For you are the Aten of the day, over all the earth.

You are in my heart and none other knows thee
But your son "Akhenaten";
You have given him understanding of your designs and your power.
The people of the world are in your hand
Just as you have created them.
All men since you have made the earth you have raised for your son
Who came forth from your body,
The King of Egypt who lives in truth,
Lord of Diadems, Akhenaten, whose life is long:
And for his beloved wife
Mistress of Two Lands, NefernefruatenNefertiti
May she live and flourish in eternity.

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POÉTES!...VOS PAPIERS!...TO YOU...PRINCESS SOPHIA!

LOVE IS THE MASTER

Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have ground sweet as sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I will be blown next?
Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny
Reveals himself a liar and a fool;
What is any of us but a straw in a storm?
How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?
God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection;
How can we pretend to act on our own?
In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack;
Sometimes Love hoists me into the air,
Sometimes Love flings me into the air,
Love swings me round and round His head;
I have no peace, in this world or any other.
The lovers of God have fallen in a furious river;
They have surrendered themselves to Love's commands.
Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night,
Constantly turning and turning, and crying out.

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES...death of a poet...to you...Narineh Yeghiazaryan...Yerevan - Armênia

Oosti Koo Gas
Sayat Nova

Oosti koo gas, gharib blbool,
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.
Doo vart ptre, yis gozalin.
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.

Whence are you coming, wandering nightingale?
You are crying, I will also cry.
You seek the rose, and I the beautiful one.
You are crying, I will also cry.

Ari blbool, khosi baren.
Okhnevi koo ekats’ saren.
Ki vartn erits’, indz im yaren.
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.

Come nightingale, tell me the word.
The mountain from which you came is blessed.
The rose burns you, my love burns me.
You are crying, I will also cry.

Man im gali didari hit,
Voonts’ gharib blbool khari hit.
Doo varti, yis yari hit.
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.

I am wandering with the picture,
Like the wandering nightingale with the insect.
You are with the rose, and I with my love.
You are crying, I will also cry.

Salbooi nman kananch im,
Ek, khosi, dzaynet chananch im,
Doo vart kanche, yis yar kanchim.
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.

I am green like the cypress,
Come, speak, I know your voice.
You call to the rose, I call to the beloved.
You are crying, I will also cry.

Gharib blbool, dzaynet maloom,
Yis oo doo ervink me haloom,
Sayat Noven asats’ zaloom,
Doo mi lats’ li, yis im laloo.

Wandering nightingale, your voice is miserable,
You and I are burning in the same way,
Sayat Nova said cruelly,
You are crying, I will also cry.

...to you my beautiful friend!...I love Arménia!...