Soube da existência de Fumiko Nakajō ao ter visto o filme “Para Sempre Mulher” de Kinuyo Tanaka. Foi uma poetisa japonesa que morreu em 1954 com apenas 31 anos e que escrevia um estilo de poesia chamado Tanka.
No Japão, é uma forma tradicional de poesia já com mais de 1.300 anos e ainda hoje respeitada. Originalmente escrita numa linha só, actualmente consiste em cinco linhas com um padrão silábico 5-7-5-7-7, num total de 31 sílabas. Ao contrário dos Haiku concisos e frequentemente focados na natureza, estes poemas têm um carácter mais pessoal, expressando sentimentos profundos, reflexões e experiências. Combinando frequentemente imagens com emoção, permitindo aos poetas explorar temas como o amor, a perda e a beleza de forma breve mas evocativa.
Hoje em dia já ninguém lá vai, aquilo está cheio de gente
Artigos etiquetados “poesia”
Nas praias que são o rosto branco das amadas mortas
Deixarei que o teu nome se perca repetido
Mas espera-me
Pois por mais longos que sejam os caminhos
Eu regresso.
—Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Coral, 1950
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.
—Maya Angelou, Family Friend Poems
All my friends are finding new beliefs.
This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.
In a highly literary and hitherto religiously-indifferent Jew
God whomps on like a genetic generator.
Paleo, Keto, Zone, South Beach, Bourbon.
Exercise regimens so extreme she merges with machine.
One man marries a woman twenty years younger
and twice in one brunch uses the word verdant;
another’s brick-fisted belligerence gentles
into dementia, and one, after a decade of finical feints and teases
like a sandpiper at the edge of the sea,
decides to die.
Priesthoods and beasthoods, sombers and glees,
high-styled renunciations and avocations of dirt,
sobrieties, satieties, pilgrimages to the very bowels of being …
All my friends are finding new beliefs
and I am finding it harder and harder to keep track
of the new gods and the new loves,
and the old gods and the old loves,
and the days have daggers, and the mirrors motives,
and the planet’s turning faster and faster in the blackness,
and my nights, and my doubts, and my friends,
my beautiful, credible friends.
—Christian Wiman, Poetry, Janeiro de 2020
Forever – is composed of Nows –
‘Tis not a different time –
Except for Infiniteness –
And Latitude of Home –
From this – experienced Here –
Remove the Dates – to These –
Let Months dissolve in further Months –
And Years – exhale in Years –
Without Debate – or Pause –
Or Celebrated Days –
No different Our Years would be
From Anno Dominies –
—Emily Dickinson (via Poetry Foundation)