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This poem is not mine

Bring me a man to lift me up with his eyes

Claúdia Sampaio (born in 1981)

Bring me a man to lift me up

with the eyes

let me put an end to the tragedy

with the grace of a freshly inflated balloon

bring me a man who comes in buckets,

loose and liquid to mix in me

with the nuptial faith of a boy promised to undress

light, light, a bird fledgling

bring me a man who loves me in circles

who loves me in fears, who loves me in laughter

that love me in wheel buses on the precipice

and give me back the dark circles in gratitude from

be alive

a man man, a man child

a man woman

a flowery man of nights in his hair

an aquatic man on fire and whole

a man home, a man winter

a man with tilted twilight mouth

heartfelt preface waiting to be written

bring me a man who wants me in me

that I lift in hemispheres and spread and sing

a man world where I can lose myself

and that finger by finger take the splinters out of my eyes

throwing me into the illusion that we are two

brand new standing clouds.

Dialogue between Poems

I will find a man who will lift me up with the soul

Nonô (born in 1975)

I will find a man who will lift me up

with the soul

that gives me complete confidence

with a free spirit like a hot air balloon

I will find a man who arrives suddenly,

Whole and complete to join me

with the ability to surrender

simple, simple, a bird that wants to fly with me

I will find a man who loves me without triangles

that without fears surrender, that undo me in laughter

without fear of coming out here and anywhere

and that the dark circles I have are inspirational

and to live with passion

a man with his different energetic charges

a true man in his essence

a romantic man

a man a lover often

a dreamy man, a creative man

a man with body and soul

with a winning heart and strength

I will find a man who only wants me

that I raise to the sphere of the universe

a complete man who makes me fear nothing

to emerge beyond the lines of this verse

that gradually remove all layers

for me, live and grow.

Nonô (M.ª Leonor Costa)