I KNOW IT'S NOT SO

About Patricia Evans' poetry

"Although I have spent time with Patrícia Evans on three separate occasions, I feel I know Patrícia Evans only through her poetry. She hides nothing, she surrenders everything. It is some of the most powerful poetry I have ever read. And I have read only English translations of her poems, so those who read her in her native Portuguese will experience her even more intimately. They should prepare themselves for imagery, anger, compassion, despair, humor, insight, knowledge of her self and the deepest love for those she loves, especially dad."

Robert E. Sheridan


Mr. Sheridan had been an editor for the New York Times for 32 years. He is also a poet, and a father.


Mr. Sheridan's blog:
http://www.coffeedrome.com/


PATRÍCIA EVANS

Twitter: @TiciaEvans - Email: TiciaEvans@gmail.com

5 de jun. de 2010

HÁ VAGA / VACANCY


HÁ VAGA

(© PATRÍCIA EVANS)

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Não tenho espaços preenchidos.
É apenas o tempo inexistindo,
que mente a sensação do estar oco.
Continuam os espaços dolorosamente vagos em mim.
Não há príncipe,
não há poesia ou suspiro,
(que suspiro sem causa é consequência de paixão).
Não há romance ou tesão.
Palavra ou música.
Significado ou ignorância.
Não tenho tempo, é verdade,
pois me ocupa a intensidade
da estranha liberdade e meninice.
Porém! Todo o espaço da alma mantenho
feito salão de festa sem festa alguma.
Se alguém gritasse em mim
ecoaria.

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VACANCY
(© PATRÍCIA EVANS)

I don't have filled spaces.
Nonexisting time lies to me,
making me feel as if I were not empty.
Space remains painfully unoccupied in me.
There is no prince
no poetry or sigh
that a sigh without cause is consequence of passion.
There is no romance or excitement.
Word or song.
Meaning or ignorance.
I don't have time, it's true,
for I am filled with the strange intensity of freedom and youth.
However, all the space of my soul I keep
like a ballroom with no ball.
. . . If someone shouted in me . . .
it would echo.


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