OS TEMPOS QUE CORREM. Miguel Vale de Almeida


12.1.04  

Ou de como quem não aprecia muito poesia passa a apreciá-la quando uma amiga envia um bom poema duma autora que em tempos já tinha ajudado a passar a apreciar poesia quem não a apreciava muito.

One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! My last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look (Write it!) like disaster.

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