Armando Taborda's photos

"I, taking refuge from the too-long days, hid myself in its nights, but don't be mistaken: instead of welcoming, Alfama illuminates the damp" by Calí BOREAZ, in "TESSERATO", Guerra e Paz, Editores, Lda., 2024 (overlapping photo: the author and me at the new book release session)

The cyclist's lane on the Uruguai Avenue sidewalk, between the old ULMEIRO Space (closed for years) and the reborn space by Benfica Municipal Authority initiative, recently inaugurated, is being painted with writers' portraits. A good civil authority decision.

Earth isn't a place of one only man but it's the only place for millions of alone men /// AVISO a Terra não é um lugar de um só homem mas é um lugar para milhões de homens sós by Armando TABORDA, 2024 (photograph: 2017 - Earth from space, by NASA EPIC Team)

The universe is perverse feeds the mystery of life and stuffs itself with stars nothing adding to Man's inventions to give life to death in the eternity of God. /// L'univers est pervers alimente le mystère qui fait la vie et se remplit d'astres qui ajoutent rien au qui l'Homme invente pour donner vie à la mort dans l'éternité de Dieu. /// O universo é perverso alimenta o mistério de que a vida é feita e enche-se de astros que nada acrescentam ao que o Homem inventa para dar vida à morte na eternidade de Deus. by Armando TABORDA, in "Palavras, Músicas e Blasfémias que Envelheço na Cidade", Ulmeiro Editores, 1996 (photography taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA) (photo 1st edition, 2009; 2nd edition, 2016; 3rd edition 2018; 4th edition, 2024)

...one has to enjoy waiting for the "athlete's" training to end

many years ago this place at the old Lisbon-Sintra road, would be crowded with drivers for a short driving break

I'm looking for a good place to rest my mind --- that it's so ephemeral incomprehensible and unforeseen as life itself --- a space left vacant by a stone removed from the sidewalk or a black hole like many of those spread by the cosmos whatever because thought and eternity have no weight no body no dimension no time they are mere props from the big bang --- which is so difficult to understand and accept --- maybe there never was big no bang not god but only this stupidly invisible and mysterious black matter that doesn't make itself known nor takes his place the universe where I look for a good place to rest my mind /// ODE AO BIG BANG procuro um bom lugar para descansar o pensamento --- que seja tão efémero incompreensível e imprevisto como a própria vida --- um espaço deixado vago por uma pedra removida da calçada ou um buraco negro desses muito espalhados pelo cosmos tanto faz porque o poensamento e a eternidade não têm peso nem corpo em dimensão nem tempo são meros adereços do big bang --- tão difícil de compreender e aceitar --- se calhar nunca houve big nem bang nem deus mas só essa matéria escura estupidamente invisível e misteriosa que não se dá a conhecer nem se assume em seu lugar o universo onde procuro um bom lugar para descansar o pensamento by Armando TABORDA, 2024

Days go away without writing neither life nor faith or adventure within the dominant comfort of aging without warning no fright as if it was welcomed in the context of the soul that claims indolent and unresigned the body's desires. /// Passam-se os dias sem escrita nem vida nem fé nem aventura no conforto dominante da velhice sem aviso nem sobressalto como se fosse bem-vinda no contexto da alma que reclama indolente e inconformada os desejos do corpo. by Armando TABORDA, in "POETÂNEA 5", 2006 (post 1st edition, 2016; 2nd edition, 2020; 3rd edition, 2024)