quarta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2008

R.I.P. 2008



2008... a year to remember? Or a year to forget? To tell you the truth I can't quite remember (or maybe I don't really want to) if this past year was reasonable or not. New people came into my life as other people left it... There were times when I thought I couldn't go on... and times when all I wanted was to be left alone... other times I felt lonely... and other times I cried... but sometimes I smiled... and other times I found beauty in places I never thought beauty could ever be found.

2008 as just been laid to rest and so I have decided to lay all of my fears and doubts to rest with it. I've buried all of the sorrow along with the year 2008 - a year to remember... a year to forget... people died, people were born... and I was reborn! If I didn't know better, I would say that 2008 was just a dream... a bad dream from which I am slowly waking from. I hope 2009 ROCKS! I hope 2009 brings happiness and love. Love... I don't even know what it is anymore... I find that love has become a lot like utopia - the unatainable dream...
And thus I bury the year 2008 and my sorrows with it - R.I.P. 2008!

quinta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2008

SIlent Night, Unholy Night...


It was December 25th... Christmas. She went up north, where the winters are as baren as they are cold, to spend the holidays with her famil... Back in her small town the night comes swiftly and silently. She had the traditional Christmas dinner with her family: turkey with stuffing and sweet potatoes. They ate in silence. Silence bothers her... it always bothers her... since she can remember. She feels like the silence drowns her, eats her up and numbs her senses... as if she were dead. After dinner she went outside to smoke a cigarrete. She walked a little to collect her thoughts... she tried hard not to remember her youth which was spent there in those very fields... farmers coming and going, reaping what they sowed... love coming and going, turning into ash... a fire that was set with gasoline, with no chance of lasting a decent amount of time (at least enough to warm anyone's heart). Her childhood was pretty decent and happy. But has she grew up her life got harder and harder... and she always felt like she was being watched by eyes unseen... That night, as she was walking through the night in silence, she heard footsteps behind her and she felt those eyes once more. Eyes she hadn't felt in years, ever since she moved from this small village up north. Her skin crawled, and she felt a shiver running down her spine. SHe tried not to look back, because her grandmother had always warned her never to look back whenever she felt uneasy. But this time... this time she felt like she had to look back. Like her life depended on it. How wrong she was... As she slowly turned, she felt the life being sucked out of her. She had her eyes closed and as she slowly opened them she wished she never had gone out to have a smoke. She saw the most undescribable of creatures: a unhuman shape floating through the air, with devilish eyes and long cold fingers took over her sucking her breath and thus her life. A tear rolled down her face as she relived every second of her short-lived life. She remebered her first kiss and the first time she fell in love. She remembered her first heartache and the first time she felt she would die of sorrow. She remembered her first job and the last fight she had with her sister. She even remembered what she had for breakfast that very morning! But suddenly, she felt a warmth coming from within her and her heart exploded and all the pieces (millions!) were scattered through the cold air and they froze and turned into snow. The snow covered the earth where her body laid lifeless... She could see her body from above and she was reluctent to leave it. But she had no choice. Her life had been taken and was now the property of some unknown creature that lives in the shadows that belong to the night.
When her body was found she tried to confort her family... her lover. He was unconsolable. Crying... she had never seen him cry before. She tried to cry too but the tears would not come. She was no longer physical. She tried to prevent them from burying her body because she had one last glimmer of hope that she could still be revived... but her body was indeed buried and she felt horror, fear, sorrow, despair... loss... She didn't know how to get through to him. She didn't know what to do nor where to go. She was lost and anger slowly crept into her heart... even though she tried to fight it. She roamed the cemetery at night and during the day she remained by the side of her beloved, trying to confort him unaware that she made his pain even harder to bare. That night, when the pain was more than he could handle, he slit his wrists. As he slowly bled to death her face became clearer and clearer... When he could see her perfect face as clear as day... he could see her crying. He looked over his shoulder and say his body laying in a pool of blood. But he felt morbidely happy because he could see her once more and kiss her and feel her. Neither of them spoke. They just held hands and walked together shining a glorious warm light. They're both damned souls. But they both walk together holding hands keeping each other warm spreading love through these cold winter nights...

terça-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2008

Cocks on a Tree... :D





(What did you expect??? Get your heads out of the gutter! lol)

Ode ao... Natal


As pessoas entopem as ruas e as praças à procura "daquela" prenda para oferecer ao namorado, ao pai, à mãe ou à tia... ou a alguém que se lembraram (à última da hora). As nossas mães andam "à caça" do peru no Intermarché (porque alguém disse que estava a 1.99€ ao kg)... e eu penso: "peru?" - tudo bem... adoro peru recheado... mas que raio aconteceu ao tradicional bacalhau cozido ou polvo assado? e as rabanadas? a tradição já não é o que era... Porque é que o português tem sempre a mania de "adoptar" manias ou tradições de outras culturas? Não é de admirar que a gente "dê uns toques" na nossa tão amada língua, fazemos acordos ortográficos sem sentido, tudo para podermos "adoptar" (neste caso - "adotar") a língua brasileira que... enfim... estou confusa... não fomos nós (os portugueses) que colonizamos o Brasil? etc e tal... porque é que agora estamos a falar como eles? Sinceramente... não entendo... ultrapassa-me. A culpa é do raio das telenovelas... Essas "pérolas", quiçá "obras de arte" (para quem não entendeu, estou a ser sarcástica), estupidificam os portugueses. Por favor! Apaguem as T.V.'s!!! Quando vou a caminhar pelas ruas... observo as pessoas... e reparo que todos os portugueses são vítimas de lavagem cerebral!!! Exemplo: lavagem cerebral pelas telenovelas - o marido chama a mulher e ela responde: "estou indo, amor!" (antigamente era: "já bou, môre!"). Enfim... já nem falo da lavagem cerebral dos 15 a 20 minutos de publicidade que todos os portugueses suportam entre as tão amadas telenovelas (sejam brasileiras ou portuguesas - sim, porque as portuguesas também não retratam o que na realidade se passa. Sejamos sinceros, quem acredita que os putos dos morangos com açucar falam mesmo assim... tão educadamente? francamente... não me façam rir, neste caso, sofrer). Olhem... já me dispersei... já nem sei de que se trata este post. Ah! Já me lembro... o Natal... Que posso eu dizer? Vivemos numa sociedade escrava do consumo. Quanto mais têm, mais querem. É triste. É verdade. Será que algum dia vamos mudar? Será que algum dia voltaremos á verdadeira tradição? Pelo andar da carruagem... não me parece.

É Natal! É Natal! Abram as carteiras... (a minha mantém-se fechada... sou a eterna forreta - e também não acredito que o Natal, Nascimento de Cristo, seja para ser festejado desta maneira. Acho que Jesus não ficaria muito satisfeito ao constatar que se esteja a usar o aniversário Dele para encher os bolsos).

The End!

sexta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2008

madness subsides


You can't go to the past to fix the present.
This is the time! This is the moment!
Right now is all we have to live,
Right now is all you have to give.
My soul turns into steam
and slowly disapears...
From a whisper to a scream
I chase away my fears.
There's not enought room for me to exist
All the people push and shove
and they don't know how to desist...
I turn to the heavens above
even though I don't believe
for some sort of guidance
but clarity is hard to achieve
through this deafening silence.
To escape from lies
I close my eyes...
My heart explodes, love dies
but madness subsides...

not too much


I'm still and my shadow dances
to the sound of silence.
There are no more chances
only a fading fragrance
of a lover lost to time...
My lips are dry,
tired and not sublime
A silent cry
Kept within
unfullfilled wishes
dreampt in sin
breed lying kisses
To quelch the thirst
for a warm touch
the last... the first...
but not too much.

segunda-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2008

Cansaço...



Estou tão cansada... estas viagens dão cabo de mim. Quando chego a casa só quero tomar um duche quente e dormir... dormir... dormir... dormir durante 100 anos, como a bela adormecida, mas sem correr o perigo de algum estupido me vir acordar com beijos... quero ser eu a acordar, quando estiver preparada...
Subi os clérigos lentamente... distraída pelas montras com motivos natalícios, que me provocam sempre nauseas, e a observar as pessoas que por mim passavam, alheias à minha existência. Por momentos, senti-me invisível; e, por ser invisível, senti-me poderosa, até que um parvo qualquer a sacudir os piolhos ao som de uma música qualquer no seu mp3 (que eu mais chamaria poluição sonora) me "atropelou" e olhou para mim como se eu fosse uma folha de papel velha, amarrotada e toda escrita e riscada... algo que algum poeta insatisfeito deitou fora... e assim, a minha fantasia foi interrompida. Continuei a minha caminhada e, ao chegar ao jardim (que eu vou chamar da cordoaria, apesar de achar que se chama outra coisa qualquer) o ambiente mudou completamente... ficou mais pesado, senti-me observada por animais de espécies desconhecidas, escondidos nas árvores... aqui, não me senti nada invisível, muito pelo contrário! Nem tão pouco me senti poderosa... senti-me a presa que um predador oculto caça na noite... senti-me o jantar de alguém... um cão rosnou... eu berrei e corri uns segundos... quando consegui recompôr-me, reparei que o cão era do tamanho de uma migalha de uma côdea de pão seco da avó da Rita... enfim... a minha imaginação prega-me umas partidas jeitosas. Depois de me rir um bocado da minha parvoíce, cheguei a salvo à passadeira e atravessei a rua para ir comprar o bilhete do expresso das 20:30 para voltar aqui para o meio do monte, que é onde estou agora (depois de ter tomado uma bela banhoca e ter roubado uma fatia de bolo que a minha tia fez... eh eh eh). Estou pronta para ir dormir... 8 horas... que eu preferia que se transformassem em 100 anos de sossego, sem príncipe algum por perto para me atazanar o juízo.

sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2008

A eterna fila...

Ontem foi sexta-feira. O final da semana ou o início do fim de semana... como queiram! Fui às compras para apetrechar a despensa e não ter de sair mais durante estes 3 dias porque, durante esta época natalícia, as pessoas entopem os supermercados e todas as outras lojas com a sua fúria consumista à procura da "tal" prenda para oferecer à tia da prima da Chica irmã do João... enfim... e para mais 500 pessoas das suas listas infindáveis. (já me estou a dispersar) E assim, decidi que seria melhor fazer as comprinhas todas para me poder trancar em casa durante o fim de semana sem ter de enfrentar essas legiões de pessoas possuídas pelo espírito natalício (lembro, que no ano passado, vi duas velhotas num confronto demoníaco a lutarem por uma toalha de mesa qualquer com motivos natalícios que estava em saldo - provavelmente uns cêntimos mais barata; os saldos levam as pessoas a fazer coisas completamente descabidas). Quando tirei a senha para comprar queijo, comecei a pensar: "que gaita, passo a minha vida em filas..." Comecei a pensar em todas as filas... fila para o queijo, fila para o talho, fila na peixaria, fila para tomar café, fila (eterna) na segurança social (até para pagar temos de esperar numa fila), fila no multibanco, fila de trânsito, fila para comprar o bilhete do comboio, etc... É frustrante chegar à conclusão que, todos os dias, passo por filas infindáveis para fazer "isto" ou "aquilo"... provavelmente, um dia destes, sem ninguém estar à espera, alguém virá e começará a disparar sobre as filas para poder passar à frente... A minha alternativa: distrair as pessoas para que elas olhem para o lado e eu consiga passar-lhes à frente... ou então, entrar com um gas soporífero qualquer que as adormeça por alguns segundo para que eu lhes possa "sacar" (sim, roubar é muito feio...) a senha com o número... Enfim... que mais posso eu dizer? Filas suck!!!

terça-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2008

ANNABEL LEE


1849
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe

(my favorite poem by my favorite writer)

This poem appeared in The International Miscellany."Annabel Lee" is generally credited to represent Poe'syoung wife, Virginia Clemm.


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

-The End-


Note: [This is probably the last poem Poe wrote. In 1850, Frances S. Osgood identified Poe's wife, Virginia, as the real Annabel Lee, an attribution that has meet with much agreement. In contrast, T. O. Mabbott and other scholars have pointed out that although perhaps inspired, in part, by Virginia, Annabel Lee is a fictional character and need not truly represent any real person. Elmira Shelton, Poe's childhood sweetheart, considered herself as Annabel Lee, even though she outlived the author by many years.]

sábado, 6 de dezembro de 2008

Mais uma vez... e com sentimento!


No comboio, a caminho de Aveiro, fechei os olhos e pensei em todos os planos e sonhos que tinha para mim quando era uma jovem de 16/17 anos... Sorri... Como eu era ingénua! Naquele tempo nunca, em toda a minha vida, imaginei que acabaria por correr o norte e centro do país a dar formação... Nunca imaginei que acabaria sozinha, sem ninguém com quem partilhar a minha vida... sem ninguém a quem dizer "queriiiiiiiiido, chegueeeeeei!" ao entrar em casa depois de um dia fastidioso de trabalho. Depois deste pensamento, vários outros, entre eles recordações do passado, assombraram-me a mente. Recordações que prefiro manter guardadas no canto mais obscuro do meu ser. Depois de todas estas imagens me terem cortado por dentro, repensei no assunto e decidi que... provavelmente... a minha vida não poderia ter sido diferente. Não consigo imaginar a minha vida diferente da que tenho agora (apesar de estar a precisar de melhorar alguns aspectos... uma reformazita... mas... adiante! avante, camaradas!). Não consigo imaginar-me casada, com 1,5 filhos, a viver numa casa com uma garagem para dois carros, e a andar sorridente pela rua (escondendo uma vertente sado-maso - espancamento e submissão do marido à noite - sim, porque eu sou um demónio!). Enfim... penso que não é a vida que eu quero para mim. Acho que nunca me conseguiria habituar a tais rotinas. Não consigo pensar numa vida sem os meus sarcasmos, sem poder entrar e/ou sair sem dar satisfações a maridos exigentes e fastidiosos... etc, etc, etc!

Ainda de olhos fechados, imaginei uma outra pessoa, a viver uma outra vida, a sorrir um outro sorriso, a pensar outros pensamentos (com toda a certeza, menos profundos)... e pensei se, nesse caso, seria ou não uma pessoa mais feliz... Cheguei à conclusão que seria uma pessoa mais feliz, porque seria uma pessoa alheia às coisas e os conhecimentos que fui reunindo durante os meus anos de vida... seria uma pessoa menos sarcástica e mais resignada ao que o destino me reserva... seria uma pessoa oca, sem conteúdo, sem nada de substancial ou interessante para transmitir ao mundo... sem experiências ou vivências para recordar ou partilhar... Neste momento, sou uma pessoa que mergulha de cabeça na melancolia... ávida leitora de tudo o que Edgar Allen Poe alguma vez escreveu... apaixonada pela música (alternativa, indie, rock, blues, folk, celta...), especialmente a que transmite uma mensagem à qual estou completamente aberta... Enfim... estou a divagar... perdi-me a contar os pensamentos que me invadiram durante a minha viagem de Porto a Aveiro. Uma hora de pensamentos... uma hora que me pareceu uma eternidade!

Muitos dos sentimentos que experimentei durante a minha curta vida (curta... é relativo... são 31 anos... para mim é curta, mas para os chavalos que curtem o rebelde way é uma eternidade; para eles, sou uma relíquia manuelina), estão agora dormentes... A minha alma, que outrora erradiava uma luz brilhante que cegaria até o mais puro dos anjos, transformou-se numa sombra errante, ao estilo dos espíritos descritos no célebre romance "wuthering heights" de emily bronte. Sinto-me atormentada, exasperada, frustrada, confusa mas sem vontade de gritar ao mundo os meus ódios; Estou apática, sem voz... possuída por uma ausência de capacidade para exteriorizar seja o que for que estou a sentir...

Abri os olhos... e uma pequena esperança crepitou em mim, ao pensar que, talvez, o karma e a teoria da reencarnação sejam a derradeira "verdade" e, assim, poderei voltar ao mundo e viver novamente. Talvez durante essa nova vida eu terei a oportunidade de experimentar tudo aquilo que planeei e sonhei para mim quando tinha 16/17 anos. É caso para dizer: "Mais uma vez... e com sentimento!".

E assim passei o tempo entre a estação de S.Bento (Porto) e a estação de Aveiro... sempre absorta em pensamentos... 60 minutos que me pareceram 60 vidas.

quinta-feira, 4 de dezembro de 2008

Letter To (someone)



Dear (whomever),

I am sitting here, once again, waiting for a sign... from you (whoever you might be) or from above... anything... nothing... I am weary. I am sitting here trying to find the right words to express these mixed feelings inside of me. I am alone. I am waiting for you still... With eyes closed and open arms... waiting for you to lay your head to rest on my lap, waiting for you to caress my rosy cheek and whisper words of desire... waiting for that one lascivious and loving kiss... the perfect one, above all others...

Life is but a moment and we're all busy worring about trivialities and absurdities that we don't even have the sense to stop and reflect on what is really important. We don't stop to apreciate what we have. We take everything for granted and only figure out what it is (or was) when it's gone. But then it'll be too late to retrieve it, to mend what we've broken. And we have none but ourselves to blame.

But I am still standing still while others rush through life and I am waiting for you. So come, my love and make haste for the night is upon us. The dawn hurts my eyes as I sit here relishing in the thought of you, with renewed hopes that one day you might come and breathe life back into me...

terça-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2008

Change



You could change the world
by opening your door
and setting free the soul
like you've never done before.
You could change my smile
by changing your own words.
Kill those thoughts so vile
And leave regrets for afterwards
Here are the words you lack
and couldn't seem to find.
But if you take them back
i'll surely lose my mind!
You thought you could fix me
and give me a stronger breath
But I dont want your pitty
I'll just keep romancing death.
I thought I could change your mind
and you would take me back.
But you just left me behind
And now we're losing track...

Frio...

Ai caramba!
Hoje, quando acordei (no minho) e vi a neve (e geada) nos montes aqui da zona... arrepiei-me... muito... muito... muito!!! (e tirei fotos).






sábado, 29 de novembro de 2008

Let It Rain


Let the rain fall down on me
let it drown my misery
let it take away the pain
let it rain, let it rain
let the rain wash my sorrow
let it wash away tomorrow
let it take away yesterday
let it fall down here today!
let the rain fall down on me
let it be whatever it wants to be
let it take away the past
hope it washes away so fast
let it rain again and again
let it rain down on my friend
let it take away the whole world
let it fall on me so cold!
let it rain...

Sometimes



Sometimes
I can see myself in your eyes.
Sometimes
I could almost believe your lies.
Sometimes
You don't hear my cries!
But sometimes you walk out the door.
Leaving me crying on the floor
Like so many times before.
Sometimes
you show me off as your prize.
Sometimes
you say long goodbyes.
Sometimes
Something in me dies!

the devics - stretch out your arms

My new friend "introduced" me to this song which is delightfully melancholic. I decided to share it... Enjoy!

Who will stop the rain...?




It's raining... The rain brings memories from the past I believed I silenced... Today they scream out so that I might recognize and abide... so that I might drown in their relentless effort to be heard. I don't want to... This confortable numbness I wallow in its perfection... the beast in me asleep... I don't want to wake him. The wars once fought within are over. I have given in to resignation. But I fing myself longing to feel again... the confortable numbness I speak of has a price... absence of feelings. I must feed this lust for feeling one way or the other... love... or pleasure... or sorrow... or pain... A person must feel something! I want to feel alive again! I am still waiting for someone to breathe life into me one last time...



The rain brings memories... and washes them away the same as it brought them... But if this rain never ceases... will the memories subside as well? I want the rain to stop and take away all that it brought... If it does not stop... it'll drown me. I close my eyes and I see myself being covered in a pool formed by the rain... and I fall deeper and deeper... and I feel cold... freezing cold. And I reach up waiting to be pulled out by some heavenly hand... but that hand never comes to pull me out. And so I keep falling... deeper and deeper into someone else's oblivion.




I open my eyes and I am laying peacefully in bed... still waiting for the rain to stop. Who will stop the rain?

quarta-feira, 26 de novembro de 2008

close your eyes


I am tired of feeling like this... out of place. I've been so many diferent people in my life that I don't know who to be now... who should I be? who do you want me to be? I've tried so hard to adapt and I've always been damned for it (if not, that's how I felt anyway). There is no god watching ove me... not now, nor ever! I want to rebel against the universe but I don't know how. I want to stop feeling... to quiet down these psycho voices in my head... to forget everything... I want to fall... I want it all to just stop! But nobody can stop fate... I wonder what fate has in store for me... loneliness, sadness, misery, weirdness... that is what I see ahead now that you're gone.

Sometimes I feel like we're being watched on TV by some asshole lazy god... and he's laughing his ass off... and it really pisses me off. How can he let such misery and fucked up things be happening all around us? Children dying... people dying... disease, starvation, injustice... evil people taking advantage of all of this misery... how can anyone believe in god? They tell me I must have faith... how can I keep faith in these conditions? When I know that no one gives a shit about the world and the people in it... I can't have faith... not in gods... not in people... not in myself.

And then you came... walking beautiful and sure... a tornado sweeping through my life... You swept most of all my ghosts away... but you left behind yours... and he burns my thoughts with a fire I cannot put out... and it burns deep inside... I'm at a loss for words... I keep writting the same thing over and over and over... your name... burnt on my flesh... your eyes... I feel them watching me... piercing my soul like knives. I am broken in two... From your eyes sheds a dawn I'll never know. We're two strangers turning into dust, now that the fire is being put out...

Remember the day we first met. Close your eyes and see me as I was then...

haunted


I close my eyes and there you are... haunting my thoughts... A naked ghost that whispers to me things I dare not repeat. I am standing still while life fast-forwards around me... a simphony of distorted sounds plying louder and louder in my head, taunting me... Unrequited feelings... I am waiting quietly for a dream to seep into my life... If I could stop time or put these feelings behind me... I wonder... could I get you off my mind... this time? It is a merry go round... I am back where I started... with you haunting my thoughts...

terça-feira, 25 de novembro de 2008

mysterious and deadly



And the black widow walked in dead silence and all of the people turned to see her. They were in awe, bewitched by her mysterious ways. Under her spell they each fell in her arms... One by one... Inocent lambs to the slaughter...

Her devious sexuality - a means to an end... the end being the need to kill... the need to feed off men's deepest desires... Man unaware of his condition as prey falls in her carefully woven web of lies and death.

As she leaves that place... the body count is imense and grotesque. She wipes the blood off her face and smiles... and walks away the same as she walked in: mysterious and deadly...

segunda-feira, 24 de novembro de 2008

The Fire...


I can't fall asleep nor dream
and everything tastes like ash.
Your love is my burning desire
My love is my funeral pyre.
The marching band playing
our distorted sad song,
unable to quiet the dark voices
that scream endlessly in my head
and question all of my choices
and what lies ahead.
You're unaware that death walks by
and takes me by my cold hand
to guide me towards oblivion.
I listened to your opinion
but now my restless soul
leaves it's broken body
searching for some kind of peace
but all that's left are ashes
from the fire I lit...

domingo, 23 de novembro de 2008

Death Cab For Cutie

Death Cab For Cutie is one of my favorite bands and I want to share some of their songs that I love and that express perfectly what I am feeling...

SHUT UP AND LISTEN...

reality for what it is... (distorted)



I cut through the curtain of night
walking towards silence
closing my eyes to the light
Expecting death's embrance.
Now, that I'm all alone
I feel the emptiness inside
all that I had is gone
and there's nothing left to hide...
Old wounds are opened in strife
I am tired and can't explain
I am weary of this life
I have nothing to gain.
This cold winter
Stirs up old feelings
And a sharp splinter
You stuck in my eye
keps me from seeing
reality for what it is...

sábado, 22 de novembro de 2008

Porto - letting go is hard to do...





Back home in my sad quilted cage I suddenly realized that letting go is hard to do... but sometimes, necessary. Feelings go awry and you find yourself analyzing every corner of your mind for some kind of hope to hold on to... but there isn't any...

Goodbye... Goodbyes are hard... especially when hellos were just said a minute ago (or so it seems). On the train back my mind was empty... I could not think about a single thing... it gave me some peace... it was a kind of sordid pleasure, a mellancoly invading my body and oozing out of every pore of my skin... So now it's time for me to say goodbye...

Goodbye...

terça-feira, 18 de novembro de 2008

"...talking about a revolution"


Olaré, novamente...

Depois de ter ouvido mais atentamente os comentários (de alguém que ia a passar no corredor da instituição onde dou formação) apercebi-me que afinal, não eram todas as turmas do 12º ano que seriam "recambiadas" para o 11º e sim (apenas?) 6 alunas/os. A revolução que "registei" foi uma espécia de... "revolução interesseira por arrastamento"... Resta-me apenas dizer que estou completamente desiludida com os jovens de hoje (e era a minha geração apelidade de rasca... e a de agora? será o quê? )... onde já se viu... uma "revolução" com segundas intenções, isto é, faltar às aulas... se bem que... o que se aprende hoje em dia não será tão interessante quanto a novela Morangos com Açucar ou Rebelde Way...

E tenho dito...

Estudantes do Secundário (12º???) revoltados em Arcos de Valdevez





Três dias por semana dou formação numa instituição (Santa Casa da Misericórdia) da vila onde cresci (Arcos de Valdevez). Quando aqui estou, costumo tomar o meu cafezinho "matinal" num café mesmo em frente ao liceu que frequentei (gosto de reminiscências). Qual não é o meu espanto quando hoje (18 de Novembro de 2008 às 9:55) me deparo com uma greve do corpo estudantil da escola secundária... Sempre pronta para a "acção", peguei na minha máquina fotográfica e registei os acontecimentos (não tendo conhecimento dos motivos que levaram a esta greve). Entre gritos de protesto e uivos de fúria, fui passando despercebida... tirei as fotos que queria e dirigi-me ao café. No café, liguei o meu portátil e passei as fotos (que podem ver acima) para poder "mostrá-las ao mundo"... Pedi o meu café, olhei para o lado... e perguntei ao rapaz que se encontrava sentado na mesa ao lado a jogar o que se passava... e ele explicou-me de forma sintética. Aparentemente, os alunos do 12º ano terão de "voltar" ao 11º ano devido a um erro qualquer (fatal, a meu ver) nas respectivas matrículas... Agora eu pergunto-me... que raio de erro poderá ter sido esse que faz com que turmas inteiras do 12º ano tenham de adiar os seus projectos para o futuro e voltar ao 11º ano... Esses pobres alunos não deveriam ser penalizados por um erro que foi, obviamente, cometido pelos serviços administrativos...
Esta é a minha opinião (sem ter ouvido o lado da administração; peço desculpa se estou equivocada quanto ao conteúdo da greve mas... receio que não me será facultada uma "entrevista"... portanto, escrevo sobre o que sei... e neste momento, o que descrevi acima é o que "sei").

domingo, 16 de novembro de 2008

Kaki King

night falls


death in her eyes...


Fotografia - Aveiro (part 2)


"stairway to heaven"
"bus stop"
"postal shadows"

"water works"

"men at work"

"water works - part 2"

Fotografia - Aveiro


"fake olympus"


"where have all the children gone?"



"lonely tower"



"light at the end of the tunnel"



"Life's waiting room"



"happy dog relaxing on a sunday morning"


"griffen"

Fotografia - Minho


"the mist"


"church behind wires"



"the mist - part 2"



"adulterated nature"



"peaceful village"



"house on the hill"