The End Of The Line
The shore
overflows the silence of the season of uncertainty.
There is no more
Persephone's abduction or Psyche's enchantment.
There are no
birds to draw the sky,
nor torches to
light the night.
There is no
passion, no whisper or ardour.
Your hand,
barren of us, beckons fate.
Desire knitted
in silken sheets,
fades in the
farewell suspended from your lips.
The crows augur
frost
in the line of
time.
I saw no more
the saltpans of your eyes,
nor the sea of
your lap.
The sonata in
Adagio Sostenutto
agonises in pas
de deux.
In lapidated
absence,
the vacant gaze
dictates the
verdict.
The swan
succumbs on the stage.
I Don't Know What To Say
I don't know
what to say
when my gaze
rests on your lap
and crosses,
impudently,
the autumn
borders,
like the last
ray of summer.
I dare to turn,
silently, the key
and transpose
the translucent mornings
of my feverish
body,
to mitigate the
thirst,
In the vintage I
dream.
And in this
healthy madness,
I touch the
stars to offer them to you,
one by one,
protractedly,
in soft
caresses,
at the dawn's
threshold.
Where Does The
Announced Spring Hover?
without a
future,
chimeras wander
on the dying
Earth.
insanity
determines the direction.
no dove of peace
can cross the darkness
nor the shadows
of ignorance.
only pain,
lament and
prayer.
in the room of
rescue,
where the
spectres reside
Hope agonizes.
the naive sleep
of childhood threatened.
Chronos charts
the course.
the old, from
the uninhabited embrace
pray to escape
the crematory
flow.
on the dying
Earth,
some are just
cemeteries.
And me?
And you?
And the
announced spring?
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.
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