segunda-feira, 30 de junho de 2014

Una bella canzone

 
Smooth as silk and quite intimate I might add.

Woman

 
 
You gotta be fortunate, you gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here thinkin' good and bad
But I'm the kind of woman that was built to last
They tried erasing me, they couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child, I'd rather go hungry
I've got all of Ethiopia inside of me
And my blood flows through every man
In this Godless land, that delievered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

This is a woman's world, this is my world
This is a woman's world, for this man's girl
There ain't a woman in this world, not a woman or a girl
That can't deliver love, in a man's world

I've born and I've bread, I've cleaned and I've fed
And for my healing wits, I've been called a witch
I've crackled in the fire, and been called a liar
I've died so many times I'm only just coming to life

This is a woman's world, this is my world
This is a woman's world, for this man's girl
There ain't a woman in this world, not a woman or a girl
That can't deliver love to a man's world

And my blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land that delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

This is a woman's world, this is my world
This is a woman's world, for this man's girl
There ain't a woman in this world, not a woman or a girl
That can't deliver love in a man's world

Oh this is a woman's world


 
 


domingo, 29 de junho de 2014

Flaming June

 
 
Frederic Leighton, (Scarborough, 3 dicember 1830 – London, 25 january 1896)
"Flaming June", 1895, oil on canvas
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
 
If you like Flaming June, what do you like? At a guess, the exquisitely sensitive painting of the gauze shift, its gossamer transparencies and rippling folds; the elegantly curled up pose of the sleeping woman, configured into a rounded, rose-like form; the orange glow that envelops her, radiating from her dress into the reddish tints of her arms and cheeks; the overall feeling of irresistible dreamy languor, on a sultry evening, on the shores of the ancient Med.

sexta-feira, 20 de junho de 2014

Dream a little dream of me

 
 
Stars fading but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn dear
Just saying this.
 
 

domingo, 15 de junho de 2014

sexta-feira, 13 de junho de 2014

There's always a story.It's all stories,really

 
 
 
 
Pergunta-me
se ainda és o meu fogo
se acendes ainda
o minuto de cinza
se despertas
a ave magoada
que se queda
na árvore do meu sangue

Pergunta-me
se o vento não traz nada
se o vento tudo arrasta
se na quietude do lago
repousaram a fúria
e o tropel de mil cavalos

Pergunta-me
se te voltei a encontrar
de todas as vezes que me detive
junto das pontes enevoadas
e se eras tu
quem eu via
na infinita dispersão do meu ser
se eras tu
que reunias pedaços do meu poema
reconstruindo
a folha rasgada
na minha mão descrente

Qualquer coisa
pergunta-me qualquer coisa
uma tolice
um mistério indecifrável
simplesmente
para que eu saiba
que queres ainda saber
para que mesmo sem te responder
saibas o que te quero dizer


Mia Couto in 'Raiz de Orvalho'

segunda-feira, 9 de junho de 2014

So blue

 
 
 
I am on an open sea
 
Just drifting as the hours go slowly by
Julie with her open blouse
Is gazing up into the empty sky.

Now it seems to be so strange here
Now its so blue
The still sea is darker than before...

No wind disturbs our coloured sail
The radio is silent, so are we
Julies head is on her arm
Her fingers brush the surface of the sea.

Now I wonder if well be seen here
Or if time has left us all alone

domingo, 8 de junho de 2014

Cine Me

 
 
Maleficent
 
 
 
 
 
 
Long live the feminist revisionist backstory. Exploring the antecedents and motivations of literature’s great villainesses has proved a rich cultural vein, restoring the reputations of everyone from Mr. Rochester’s mad wife to the Wicked Witch of the West. The approach is such a winner that Disney got into the act, opening up its own cupboards to a bit of political spring cleaning: Based on both the 19th-century versions of the fairy tale and Disney’s own 1959 animated movie, Maleficent is a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth that reveals the reasons the evil fairy godmother cursed that darling baby in the first place.
 

That certain mood

 
 
 
Amo-te como um bicho, simplesmente
De um amor sem mistério e sem virtude
Com um desejo maciço e permanente.
 
Vinicius de Moraes

sexta-feira, 6 de junho de 2014

domingo, 1 de junho de 2014

Marilyn Monroe


Too sexy

 
 
Is there any better way to get people to look at something than by telling them it was deemed “too sexy”?
 
Sin City: A Dame to Kill (  poster of Eva Green, which according to Page Six was not approved by the MPAA “for nudity — curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.”)