POETIC DELIGHTS BY ISILDA NUNES-PORTUGAL

 

1-POET, THE ALCHEMIST OF LANGUAGE

Poet. The alchemist of language,

dissecting the word, bleeding the mystery.

In the liquid illusion, vertigo. Inner shipwreck.

The abyss howling within the verse.

The poet does not cleanse, he corrodes.

He swallows the light, the time, the reason.

Just the scream stuck in his throat.

Thick. Coagulated. Flooding the words.

Drowning the world in the skin of the poem.

2-THE RAIN HAS ALREADY ERASED THE KISSES GRAFFITIED ON THE WALL

An eclipse has pierced the room and silence drips from the ceiling.

Now the house breathes darkness and the shadow grows like ivy.

Boxes of forgotten memories, piled at the door of my dream.

Behind the door, the city`s night, gnawed by the rust of time.

The streetlamp silenced the tongue of fire. It shattered inside.

The genie of the lamp has emigrated.

Pain is a foreign country, where the soul gets lost.

And you?

And you?

Oblivious to us, there, where silence bows and the verb gets drunk,

you sway to the rhythm of Jazz.

The rain has already erased the kisses graffitied on the wall.

3-THE SON OF THE WAR

You know mother, yesterday I heard you crying.

I was scared, Mom.

I realised that your tears did not augur a good thing.

Dad hasn`t stroked my head in days,

nor you sing Nina Nana.

I feel cold, Mama! I feel night!

I can`t sleep.

I hear, continuously, thunders that shatter my soul.

Sirens that pierce my body.

Bullets that assassinate my future.

I sink in the anxiety that floods your womb in convulsions.

Your heart seems to explode.

Your body seems to expel me.

I try to hold on to the rope that coils around my foot,

in vain. It slips away.

Mother, I`m afraid!

Afraid of living in Humanity.

Afraid of dying and killing.

Don`t you love me anymore, Mother?

AUTHOR:

ISILDA NUNES-PORTUGAL:

Isilda Nunes is a Portuguese artist, writer and poet who holds an Honorary Doctorate

in Philosophy, Letters, Arts and Humanities in Barcelona. She has won several

awards and her writings have been published in anthologies, magazines and

newspapers in around fifty countries and translated into more than forty languages.

She is the co-author of a hundred national and international anthologies and the

author of books of poetry and prose. She is a member of the board of several

national and international movements and, among other positions, she is Founder

and Vice-President of UMEA; Chairwoman of the Language, Literature Committee of

the Modern Pythian Games; WPM Coordinator; Member of the Board of Directors of

Editorial Atunis etc.