Poem
Ruy Cinatti
MAPPING THE COURSE
Those who didn’t give me Love, didn’t give me anything.I find myself standing still . . .
I look around and see
My better world unfinished.
So much time lost . . .
With what nostalgia I remember it and bless it all:
Fields of flowers
And brambles . . .
I was a spring of life. I deliberate. I make order.
I think the future that will come.
And, dazzled, I follow the thought
That shows itself.
Those who didn’t give me love, didn’t give me anything.
Banished,
Banished, I travel on.
And dream myself without a country, without a friend.
Wittingly.
© Translation: 2009, Alexis Levitin
LINHA DE RUMO
LINHA DE RUMO
Quem não me deu Amor, não me deu nada.Encontro-me parado. . .
Olho em redor e vejo inacabado
O meu mundo melhor.
Tanto tempo perdido . . .
Com que saudade o lembro e o bendigo:
Campos de flores
E silvas . . .
Fonte da vida fui. Medito. Ordeno.
Penso o futuro a haver.
E sigo deslumbrado o pensamento
Que se descobre.
Quem não me deu Amor, não me deu nada.
Desterrado,
Desterrado prossigo.
E sonho-me sem Pátria e sem Amigos,
Adrede.
© 1958, Ruy Cinatti
From: O Livro do Nómada Meu Amigo
Publisher: Guimarães, Lisbon
From: O Livro do Nómada Meu Amigo
Publisher: Guimarães, Lisbon
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MAPPING THE COURSE
Those who didn’t give me Love, didn’t give me anything.I find myself standing still . . .
I look around and see
My better world unfinished.
So much time lost . . .
With what nostalgia I remember it and bless it all:
Fields of flowers
And brambles . . .
I was a spring of life. I deliberate. I make order.
I think the future that will come.
And, dazzled, I follow the thought
That shows itself.
Those who didn’t give me love, didn’t give me anything.
Banished,
Banished, I travel on.
And dream myself without a country, without a friend.
Wittingly.
© 2009, Alexis Levitin
From: O Livro do Nómada Meu Amigo
From: O Livro do Nómada Meu Amigo
MAPPING THE COURSE
Those who didn’t give me Love, didn’t give me anything.I find myself standing still . . .
I look around and see
My better world unfinished.
So much time lost . . .
With what nostalgia I remember it and bless it all:
Fields of flowers
And brambles . . .
I was a spring of life. I deliberate. I make order.
I think the future that will come.
And, dazzled, I follow the thought
That shows itself.
Those who didn’t give me love, didn’t give me anything.
Banished,
Banished, I travel on.
And dream myself without a country, without a friend.
Wittingly.
© 2009, Alexis Levitin
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