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if I see you and you see me if our destiny is to see each other when we meet on this precarious planet where we live why do we pretend not to see each other? why do not politicians come to us? why do we pay them exorbitant funds to make utopias a reality and everything remains the same? why do we finance corruption, incompetence and expenses of useless politics? at last why do not politicians come to us and only take the cloud by June while caressing their fat navels? until…

For / Para Fernando Pinto RIBEIRO (a) Life is all and death nothing so you live in the music of your sung fados and in the murmur of crystalline words purified fair in your poems fragmented echoes at the far away abyss viable time of our collective memory. A vida é tudo e a morte nada assim vives na música de teus fados cantados e no murmúrio das palavras cristalinas depuradas justas em teus poemas fragmentados ecos no distante abismo viável tempo da…

SIMPLY GENIAL / SIMPLESMENTE GENIAL a beautifull illustration of the scale of all we know, at / uma bela ilustração da escala de tudo o que conhecemos em htwins.net/scale2 the page will look blank for a while but give it a chance to load up / a página fica em branco por uns instantes até que se complete o carregamento [IT MAY HELP TO PUT EVERYTHING IN CONTEXT] [PODERÁ AJUDAR A RELATIVIZAR TUDO]

This book, "All Tears Are In The Gorge Of The Sea", isn´t easy to read. It requires concentration, cultural imagination to unveil the poetic meaning of the metaphorical text/context, and time to reread and enjoy. However, it's one of the most fascinating, sharp, beautiful, and mysyerious books I have read in my life of many readings. To Isabel Maria Mendes Ferreira SIBYL your oracles are fascinatingly indefinite and diaphanous as if we woke in the morning fog looking for our figure…

I am the gardener of my polychromatic garden the grass of all plans ledges recesses refuge of weeds is green and the water to irrigate my life is sparse. Sou jardineiro de meu policromático jardim é verde a relva de todos os planos socalcos recantos refúgio de ervas daninhas e a água para regar a minha vida é escassa. by Armando TABORDA, 2012 (post 1st edition,2012; 2nd edition. 2022)

(dedicated to the RTP1 program, saturday's aftenoon) the improvised stage under the shed and pimba* music the pregnant or not TV female speakers and pimba music the routine of failed TV male speakers and pimba music the craftwork and pimba music the dance of local fat girls and pimba music the ginjinha* and pimba music the sausages and pimba music the regional candies and pimba music the bread and pimba music the diuretic and aphrodisiac teas and pimba music one hour of t…

The Escola de Mar (School of Sea) , in good time, has decided to edit a new collection for awareness and education of the new mentality of the Portuguese children under the title "Paleta Azul" (Blue Palette). The new title session of the first book "Penas, o Investigador" (Feathers, the Investigator) , by Sofia Quaresma , illustrated by André Lopes , took place at the Municipal Library of Alcobaça, in December 8th. The story is a fable focused on the more and more urgent necessity…

The fern waves sea of roots captured by land of free surf its vegetal condition claims the wind's shake for the light whisper through my eyes before loss into the sky /// O feto ondula mar de raízes capturadas na terra de livre rebentação sua condição vegetal reclama o frémito do vento para que a luz sussurre nos meus olhos antes de se perder no céu. by Armando TABORDA, 2013 (post 1st edition, 2013; 2nd edition, 2023)

The first thing to say is that Cecília BARREIRA takes "All Sins Of The World" with such virtuosity that better seems a sinner previously absolved in the confessional of poetic creation. Did you know that "greed is on the look", "pornography is a huge hangover of love", "laziness is splendid as the trees", "friendship is the sin of the weaks", "lust is cannibal", "we envy Camões and Pessoa that pushed time beyond them", "metaphysics is the wasteland of destiny", "god is all of all" and "death…

IN THE SUMMER'S PIN THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN THE SNAIL'S AESTIVATION ON A SATIN PILLOW NO PINO DO VERÃO NÃO HÁ NADA MELHOR DO QUE A ESTIVAÇÃO DO CARACOL NUMA ALMOFADA DE CETIM Armando TABORDA, 2014

On my porch there is a resting chair without a body and in my house one night without shadows by corners or hidden in drawers and my soul planes around the light in more and more shorter and faster circles vortex of the body which will lay down in the chair at any moment Sur mon balcon il y a une chaise-longue sans corps et dans ma maison une nuit sans ombres par les coins ou cachés dans les tiroirs et mon âme plane autour de la lumière en cercles de plus en plus courts et rap…

Blue is the broader colour on Earth with the sea and sky within its reach but not the cleanest because storms crafts spoils and pitfalls impose other shades and colours that the sun with its bright light fades away and the night hides into the spectrum to which they belong O azul é a cor mais vasta da Terra com o mar e o céu ao seu alcance mas não a mais limpa porque há tempestades naus despojos e escolhos a imporem outros tons e cores que o sol com sua luz intensa apaga e a noite esco…

LIGHT WANT TO TRESPASS THE STAINED GLASS BUT REMAINS FILTRATED BY THE OUTLINE OF THE ELEMENTS THAT COMPOSE IT SUCH AS A DEAD INSECT CLOSED IN AMBER SEEMS ALIVE A LUZ QUER TRANSPOR O VITRAL MAS FICA FILTRADA PELO CONTORNO DOS ELEMENTOS QUE O COMPOEM TAL COMO UM INSECTO MORTO CAPTURADO NO ÂMBAR PARECE VIVO by Armando TABORDA, 2015

BECAUSE LIFE CAUGHT US BY SURPRISE WE HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT WITH SOME IRONY PORQUE A VIDA NOS APANHOU DE SURPRESA HÁ QUE ENCARÁ-LA COM ALGUMA IRONIA by Armando TABORDA, 2015 (post 1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2018; 3rd edition, 2024)

Isn't a bird who wants to be inflate the lungs with air roll the arms and legs as a ship hull pack the pneumatic bones of thought climb to the top of the Clérigos Tower and throw yourself by the flight's end you will have no return Não é pássaro quem quer enfuna os pulmões de ar enrola os braços e pernas como casco de navio arruma os ossos pneumáticos do pensamento sobe à Torre dos Clérigos e atira-te no fim do voo não terás regresso by Armando TABOR…

Shadows hide behind the music and perfectly audible sounds are lost in the invisible forest but I lift my head and the powerful light stars twinkle the cosmic music I hear through night's darkness As sombras escondem-se atrás da música e os sons perfeitamente audíveis perdem-se na floresta invisível mas levanto a cabeça e as estrelas poderosas de luz cintilam a música cósmica que ouço na escuridão da noite by Armando TABORDA, 2016 (post 1st edition, 2016; 2nd editi…

I'm insomniac of thinking a poem full of significant metaphors for exemple fireflies on the loose in my backyard flashing as stars and crazy stars orbiting the planets revolted against the Universe and planets prodigal sons without knowing how to return home Fico insone de pensar um poema cheio de metáforas significantes por exemplo pirilampos à solta a cintilarem estrelas no meu quintal e as estrelas revoltadas contra o Universo a rodopiarem loucas em órbita dos planetas e os planetas f…

Nasci em Viana do Castelo, em 1942. Sou Coronel do Exército, reformado. Esqueci quase tudo o que aprendi nas escolas e na vida profissional e pessoal que tenho vivido intensa e ludicamente por esse mundo fora. Publiquei quatro livros com fragmentos do que me ficou na memória em mais de sessenta anos de vida. Embora continue a registar emoções, cada vez menos frequentes e mais leves, não sei se terei tempo de escrever um quinto livro. /// I was born in Viana do Castelo,…

Cascade Cascade / erect water falling down / like a dream / of a vertical man // Loving you I love you the best way I can / because I share one part of me with nothing // Secretly / is there I hide my reserve of world loving / is there I regenerate my destroyed dreams / is there the death breads my last blowing // Looking for you I look for you / the words invent you before you come across / and show up like this / suddenly imposing your indefinite presence / s…

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