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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen ‘Death’ – A Translation

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Sophia de Mello writing and smoking by the window
Sophia de Mello

Death

How you are clear, 

What freshness stayed between your fingers… 

 

You are a fountain, 

With white stones in your depths, 

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Noémia de Sousa ‘I Will Rise Lucid’ – A Translation

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Noémia de Sousa

You beat me and threaten me 

Now I lift my enlighted head

And scream: ‘Enough!’(…) Condemning me to eternal darkness

Now my African soul is illuminated

And discovered the fraud and screamed, screamed a thousand

times:_’Enough!’.

You put me in this cage and now you want to crucify me

Now I’ve drawn the rosy tint from my eyes 

And screamed: ‘Enough!’ 

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