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“Silence Voice” inspired me…

“Silence Voice”

“Sunset time, a peaceful burnt woods just surround you quietly. Together with your heart beating, you can feel the smooth breeze and hear the sounds of emerging exuberance underneath. The perfect ending is in the endless. The picture was taken in Yellowstone National Park. Turning themselves into such strong remaining, the woods have given hopes to their next generation through a wildfire.”

Photo Location:

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Photo and caption by chaoying zhao

in: National Geographic, Photo Contest 2012, week 8 / “Silence Voice”

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“Silence Voice” inspired me!  ;-)

Here’s the outcome. In Portuguese… Sorry, but the real, most intimate emotions are terribly hard to express in a foreign language…

;-)

Árvore decepada
 
Quando uma árvore adoece,
e os seus ramos secam,
ninguém pensa que lhe faltou água, luz ou sol, 
solo fértil ou arenoso
ou um ombro amigo doutra árvore sobranceira…
 
Diz-se antes que a qualidade saiu fraca, não vingou, 
e que se não voltam a plantar árvores de semelhante qualidade…
 
(Ainda por cima nem fruto dava,
de pouco ou nada servia,
pouco valia,
nada rendia…
 
Árvore de dar sombra…
Árvore de tirar sol…)
 
Então
abate-se, simplesmente, 
com um único e dilacerante golpe mortal.
Rapidamente.
 
“É boa para queimar,
e as raízes servirão para fazer uma fogueira enorme na noite de Natal.”
 
Talvez se venda a lenha, quem sabe?
 
Ou talvez nem para isso dê, se estiver oca.
 
Mas, depois,
(coisa esquisita!)
dá-se conta que as raízes continuam vivas,
bem vivas,
(como pode?!)
e pensa-se melhor no que terá acontecido a esta árvore que adoeceu…
 
Ou então não se pensa simplesmente em nada…
 
Seja como for, esta árvore, outrora doente,
não passa agora duma árvore 
decepada.
 
De árvore já não tem nada.
De árvore já não é nada.
Pode ser tronco, ramos;
pode ser raíz.
Pode ser lenha.
Pode até ser ex-sombra.
 
Mas deixou de ser árvore.Para sempre.
 
E para sempre é tempo demasiado.
Até mesmo para uma árvore.
 
 
 

Celeste

13 Nov. 2012

“Roots”, Frida Kahlo, 1943

 
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Posted by on 13 de November de 2012 in fotografia, our world, poesia

 

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News from my home town

CHAVES, PORTUGAL 

Important links related to this post:

  • Chaves- link to the official site of our municipality

link to a great blog (“Olhares sobre a cidade”), run by Fernando Ribeiro, daily updated, in which different themes are approached, from politics to poetry. Some posts are closely related to our town’s issues; others refer to universal questions and matters. (While visiting the blog you are tuned to a radio station. This is quite something!)

Besides that Fernando Ribeiro usually posts some of his photos, always quite good ones, whether from specific scheduled issues as for example about our villages surrounding, or from “instantaneous” events he finds relevant witnessing through his camera and sharing with people. His aim is mainly to make people aware of what’s happening around them, or simply to call their attention to something they hadn’t noticed / realized before.

Being an artist, more than a simple photographer, Fernando Ribeiro has “the eye”. The eye and the love for his art. That’s why his sensitivity guides him towards quite simple, rather “unseen” stuff for the eyes of ‘the common people’ where he finds beauty that he keeps in the eternal memory of a photo.

He shares those tiny, great, awesome things in this blog, as well. And we all are so very grateful, mainly because he’s one of our best ambassadors and all his work is done for free.

* See some of Fernando Ribeiro’s latest (posted) photos below.


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Posted by on 8 de June de 2012 in arte plástica, fotografia, nós, pintura, poesia, raízes

 

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