A free gift for National Poetry Day. My first collection of translations – from the amazing Poet who inspires me – Fernando Pessoa. “Acute as his own emotional life was, he nevertheless belongs essentially to the order of poets whose work is inspired, not merely for their own personality, but by the world of things and men outside them.” On Keats – highlighted in margins by Fernando Pessoa in a book in his Library.
Poems of Alberto Caeiro-Final (Click on me to download pdf)
PRIVACY UPDATE OCTOBER 2019. I found I had written a poem as a privacy statement, which I have now completed and added. Nothing legal just simple words; enjoy! BACK TO THE PURPOSE! With this site I will bring together various writings, quotes, and poems that interest me and that draw together the themes of my writing. Rather than write in a conventional way I want to use this site to draw together all the themes of my writing into one full integrated whole. Continue reading
With our freedoms come responsibilities,
Ones held dearly by many, however we speak;
Yet in holding too tight to our fears and hate
We can easily transcend toward unknown harm;
And in that journey, towards those we would not be,
Lies harm and yet all of our hope of seeing truthfully.
Can you imagine that blessed time,
Just before our dawn light, when,
For the first time, her magic appeared;
Radiant yet translucently uttered.
Each time we wake, fully alive to our selves,
Fully present to others, there comes loves joy.
For only in our truthful union, loving moments,
When we step beyond our incoherent walls,
Will the certainties in a love of life appear.
From room to hallway the candles passing glare
is extinguished. She floats on imprinted dances,
but in her fullest shape she is no longer there
in the starless night of our blue-black branches.
It’s time, we must leave – as we, the young ushers,
with our lists not yet dreamed but still dreams,
take up the remaining visible radiance of Russia’s
phosphoric rhyming from her last poetic seams.
Wherever you are, you will know
why I am saying what I say now.
Only you alone can understand it,
interpret it, my message
being very simple: pureness,
some life, some truths
which are never forgotten;
even if life, the truth
and purity are gone
from me.
……………Listen. Only
for you are described
these words. You alone
will understand.
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
The Cavafy Archive website was created by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies and is owned by the Onassis Foundation. It contains all of Cavafy’s major works in the translation of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (edited by G.P. Savidis)
Fernando Pessoa
The Fernando Pessoa House has a unique treasure: the private library of this great literary figure. It’s not very often one can find an entire library belonging to a writer with Pessoa’s universal dimension.
Poemhunter.com
PoemHunter.Com aims to spread the effects of poems in the social and individual life of people, where a continuous change is undergoing with the Internet. PoemHunter.Com without a pause, continues its activities with the active participation of thousands
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Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest audience
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ISBNdb.com
ISBNdb.com project is a database of books providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, book stores, librarians, scientists, etc. Taking data from hundreds of libraries across the world ISBNdb is a unique tool you won’t find anywhere else.
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Open library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
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