E R R A T A – p/ Lucio Carvalho Poesia Quando fores bem velhinha

Quando fores bem velhinha


William Butler Yeats
(13/06/1865 – 28/01/1939)

Quando fores bem velhinha, já grisalha e, exausta de sono,
Pestanejares junto ao fogo da lareira, toma este livro,
Lê com calma, e sonha com o olhar um pouco mais vivo,
Como o que tiveste outrora, sem as sombras do abandono;

Quantos, falsos ou verdadeiros, amaram a encantadora
E fugaz beleza da juventude, quando era simples e fácil,
Mas um homem só amou com efeito a peregrina em tua alma,
E amou em teu rosto as sombras que podes ver agora;

E, curvando-te em direção às chamas incandescentes,
Resmungas, tristonha, de qualquer amor distante
Que sobrepassou colinas, montanhas adiante,
Desaparecendo da mesma forma que as estrelas cadentes.

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

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minhas asas?
duas pétalas apodrecidas

minha mente?
tacinhas de vinho azedo

minha vida?
vazio bem pensado

meu corpo?
um talho na cadeira

meus altos e baixos?
um gongo infantil

meu rosto?
um zero dissimulado

meus olhos?
ah! pedaços de infinito

O bilheteO bilhete

O novo ano trouxe velhas penitências
bem embrulhadas, como presentes
preparados há tempos, de um antigo banquete.

Há tempos ouvindo a mesma coisa,
tomo cuidado com o que posso escutar.
Não são tantas lascas nas pedras, mas há.

É raro quando o comum se revela estranho.
É uma tempestade que permanece em segredo –
e o que existe se reveste de ausências.

Aperto os joelhos entre os braços, gasto
tempo demais com máquinas quebradas
e coisas arruinadas que nem valem nada.

Os olhos eu abro porque vai começar a chover.
Tudo parece tão limpo.. E, o frio, glacial.
O relógio é que bate cada vez mais cedo…

Desse modo qualquer um pode vir a morrer:
não há o sustento do sol e a noite vindoura
ainda dorme, malgrado lhe envie o bilhete.

DefeatedsDefeateds

my dear B, when you died
I did not cry so much, but you don’t need
forgive me, I did
and still thank you
the few years that divided
all that misery
and our great and unforgettable friendship

I remember when you were sad
by continuous returns
to never realized hopes
“Life is like that,” I told you
without having any idea of what life was
and what happened to you

and when you fell in love
and that was inaccessible to you tell her or show it
because he never listen to you
and you taught me
to trust more in poetry than in love

today I’ll take a few heavy beers
in your memory

You knows
I have only good memories of us
and I want to thank you for having disappointed me early
about the good men and men of faith
and about yourself as well
this was your greatest proof of friendship

I remember we were looking together in books
which is not met in the streets and bars
and people had helmeted face
and dirty jokes and closed minds
like an crazy army

when things started to not give too sure
in your life
I did not know your address and your phone
or and even if you still remember me fondly
or contempt for it (I think I don’t deserve)

today I will drink white wine that I never could bear
in our memory

I need to forgive you by me
my descent and my destiny
you please to free himself from me
now that you cannot
I know that in one way or another I marked your life

the way the horses marks the abundant pasture
whales marks the forgotten water
the birds in the empty wind
and life marks the universe and history
(vainly)

because it was you that was my best memories
and no one else, when I was pure, but it wasn’t sweet
when not yet grown accustomed to lie and to lie
when I sought to know without any suspicion
when I would rather do nothing
to live the lie of others
and you helped me understand that we were always alone
despite the love and hate that they keep for us

my dear B, when you died
I was glad to hear that you did not suffer
more than myself to know that you died

today I’ll drink the same cheap cognac with which we faced the cold
in my memory

[uma versão em português deste poema está publicado em Falso Alarde]