Miguel Torga - "Confiança" (Trust)

Trust...

What's beautiful in this world and what cheers you up,

Is to see that in the harvest

Of each dream

The vine remains to dream of another adventure...

And that the sweetness

That is not tasted

Is transfigured

Into a sweetness

Much purer

And much younger.

Olá! Quando gostamos de poesia, é perfeitamente normal que o nosso olhar permaneça atento a esta forma de expressão. E cada vez mais há poesia, poetas, encontros de poesia por aí. Isto porque a humanidade precisa dela para expressar pensamentos, sentimentos, ideias e muito mais. Neste sentido trago hoje uma poesia que encontrei no Hospital São Francisco Xavier numa das minhas habituais deslocações até lá. Trata-se de um poema de Miguel Torga, intitulado “Confiança”, um sentimento tão necessário para quem passa por aqueles corredores.

Hello, when you love poetry, it's perfectly normal to keep an eye out for this form of expression. And there is more and more poetry, poets and poetry gatherings around. This is because humanity needs it to express thoughts, feelings, ideas and much more. So today I'm bringing you a poem I found at the São Francisco Xavier Hospital on one of my regular trips there. It's a poem by Miguel Torga, entitled "Confiança" (Trust), a feeling so necessary for those who pass through those corridors.

Por hoje despeço-me com beijos poéticos

For today I say goodbye with poetic kisses

M.ª Leonor Costa (Poesias da Nonô)

  This poem was published for the first time on December 6, 2015 and is part of the unpublished volume I of Christmas poetry.

 Open letter to Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus

this year I don't ask you for nothing

Give the gifts to those most in need

I have everything I deserve.

 

Distributes the gifts well

do not forget those in need

give priority to children

their presence softens everything.

 

Do not forget about me

Come visit me

I do not need gifts

but I do not dispense the tenderness of your glance.

 

Dear Santa Claus

Do not forget the disadvantaged

this year bring peace to the world

and remember the most overlooked.

Sitting at the desk in my room,

December 4, 2015, 9:10 p.m., Handwritten

In Costa, M.ª Leonor, Christmas Poems, Vol. I

 This poem was published for the first time on December 25, 2014 and is part of the unpublished volume I of Christmas poetry.

My best Christmas gift 2014

My best Christmas gift

My friend Eva

Gave me a beautiful bracelet

She made it the night before

She made it with threads in her own way.

 

She tied it to my wrist with two knots

It's a multicolored bracelet

Her gesture was very affectionate

It was an act of love.

 

This was the best present of my Christmas

Not for the object itself, but for the attitude

There's nothing better to receive

Than a gift with a lot of virtue. 

December 17, 2014

In Costa, M.ª Leonor. Christmas Poems. Vol. I

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For today I'll say goodbye with poetic kisses.

 This poem was published for the first time on December 24, 2014 and is part of the unpublished volume I of Christmas poetry.

It's Christmas, it's Christmas

It's Christmas, it's Christmas

Let's celebrate with the family

After dinner at a good table

We'll exchange presents.

 

The party starts first thing in the morning

With its preparation

In the kitchen we gather

In great excitement.

 

Everyone does something

You have to help

At twenty o'clock on December 24th

We'll sit down at the table.

 

We eat and toast

And take the opportunity to talk

After we've eaten

We'll all get up from the table.

 

It's time to exchange gifts

Which follows

This one's for the kids

They can't contain their excitement.

 

It's after midnight

The party comes to an end

And that's the end of Christmas Eve

And tomorrow is already Christmas Day.

December 17th, 2014

In Costa, M.ª Leonor. Christmas Poems. Vol. I

This poem was published for the first time on November 30, 2014 and is part of the unpublished volume I of Christmas poetry.

Christmas Tree 2011

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For today I'll say goodbye with poetic kisses.