It’s time to mow the flowers // Don’t let me stand, if you are the enemies of Spring.
Posted on | July 29, 2009 | No Comments
Adoro os poemas dessa mulher, Simin Behbahani . Pena que exista tão pouco publicado online. O único livro dela que eu tinha, está com um de vocês, com São Longuinho, ou no buraco negro do universo Rodolphiano….
IT’S TIME TO MOW THE FLOWERS
Simin Behbahani
It’s time to mow the flowers,
don’t procrastinate.
Fetch the sickles, come,
don’t spare a single tulip in the fields.
The meadows are in bloom:
who has ever seen such insolence?
The grass is growing again:
step nowhere else but on its head.
Blossoms are opening on every branch,
exposing the happiness in their hearts:
such colorful exhibitions must be stopped.
Bring your scalpels to the meadow
to cut out the eyes of flowers.
So that none may see or desire,
let not a seeing eye remain.
I fear the narcissus is spreading its corruption:
stop its displays in a golden bowl
on a six-sided tray.
What is the use of your ax,
if not to chop down the elm tree?
In the maple’s branches
allow not a single bird a moment’s rest.
My poems and the wild mint
bear messages and perfumes.
Don’t let them create a riot with their wild singing.
My heart is greener than green,
flowers sprout from the mud and water of my being.
Don’t let me stand, if you are the enemies of Spring.
* No original, a última frase não está grifada
Publiquei esse post pela primeira vez, tempos atrás, no http://philochaordic.blogspot.com mas aqui o universo de Achados e Perdidos é maior, por ser um blog aberto. E, na verdade, para o meu humor predominante nos ultimos dias, a escolha deste poema faz todo sentido… Na medida em que a poesia pode “fazer sentido”
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