ISILDA NUNES

 

In The Eternal Return, The Verb

 

In the shadow of silence, dreams fade away,

chimeras are dissolved.

Dying, the city doesn’t warp hope

in the knitting of days.

Forgotten, the formula for entering Heaven.

Hades plays hide and seek in the alleys,

where the spectres wander.

In the dubious corner of the Future,

Demeter in vain implores Persephone.

Death jokes, Life fades away.

In the shadow of silence

oblivious to the city’s pain,

Creator and Creation in symbiotic union.

The evasion of Humanity,

the incorporation of the Divine

in the power to touch Heaven.

The exuded Art exults in redemption.

At the tip of the pen, the Becoming,

in the eternal return, the Verb.

 

The Last Train

 

Of us, only the pain remains,

which gnaws at my soul.

Where does the scent of jasmine hover?

Where does the announced spring live?

Today, the corpse of me

survives in the disarray of emotions.

Translucent dust

volutes in the dug cracks,

on the lacerated face

on the tortured body.

At the hands of pseudo-love,

the sacred feminine outraged.

The scourged flesh.

The inert soul, in the induced shortcut.

At the curve of the road,

the last train

appeals to detachment.

And you?

Coldly you crush the cigarette.

 

I Wish I Dared You

 

In the enigma of your body,

I redesigned myself.

in the pulse of your veins,

I sipped the elixir of you.

Until the exhaustion,

I loved you.

ah!

I wish I dared you,

in the inexorable placidity of your skin,

in the mystery of your gaze

and in the abyss of your lips

 

ISILDA NUNES

 

ISILDA NUNES is a Portuguese artist, writer and poet, Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy, Letters, Arts and Humanities in Barcelona. Her poems have been published in anthologies, magazines and newspapers in about fifty countries and translated into more than forty languages. She is co-author of more than a hundred national and international anthologies and author of books of poetry and prose. She has participated and organised numerous national and international cultural, literary and solidarity events in her country and abroad. She won numerous awards and recognitions in many countries and she is part of the board of directors of several cultural movements both nationally and internationally and among other positions she is Founder of UMEA (Association of the World Union of Writers) and Vice President of UMEA; Chairperson of the Language, Literature and Oratory Art Committee of Modern Pythian Games; Advisor to the Presidency of CIESART (International Chamber of Writers and Artists) and President of CIESART-Portugal; Coordinator of WPM (World Poetry Movement); National Director of IFLAC World- Portugal; Vice-President MEL (Mulheres Empreendedoras da Lusofonia); Ambassador of the Women’s Federation for World Peace International; RRM3 Advisor for GPLT-UK- UN & EU, Ambassador for Peace and Humanity IFCH Morocco; Member of the Board of Directors of Editorial Atunis, Full Member of the LIK Academy; Ambassador and Portuguese Language Editor of the international multilingual literary magazine The Archer; International Consultant and Member of the preliminary Jury for China Poetry Garden Magazine; Chronicler at Helicayenne Magazine; Associate Editor at Chinese Poetry Circle magazine University; Honorary Member of the Movements: MIL, ALDCI, Lírio Azul and CEMD.