ISILDA NUNES

 

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.