My UNIqueVERSE now is @soniario

Espelho/Mirror

Espelho
teu vulto,
Tantas faces em mim.
Sem esquecer,
Teu sorriso,
Mil e uma
Noites
Sem você.

O que dizer,
Que já não tenha sido dito.
Você,
em mil palavras,
Nomes,
Feios e bonitos.
Um amor como o meu,
Vão,
Em tantos amores seus.

(2002/2009)

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Mirror
Your image,
Many faces in me.
Unforgettable,
Your smile,
A thousand and one
Nights
Without you.

What to say,
That has not been said before.
You,
in a thousand words,
Names,
Beautiful and ugly.
A love like mine,
Gone,
In many lovers of yours.

(2002/2009)

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PROUD of my broken heart since thou didst break it,

Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,

Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,

Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

(Emily Dickinson - XXXV- Love - Part three)

10 Species Near Extinction

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1888702,00.html

Bathtub Gif

Getting People to Coexist with Cats

Getting People to Coexist with Cats

I despair over the thought that I may have hurt you

In love, they say, there's no fear

Mine terrifies me

and puzzles the rest

I foolishly intend

To make my love more legitimate

By hiding it away

Sparing you

yet another unsolicited adorer

In love, they say, all is fair

How dare someone reduce

love to fear?

Not wanting to hurt you

Is that I may have hurt you more

and hurting you I despair

I pride in my sensible judgement

But all you see

Is a coward with noble intentions

I have been on this road

I have felt my pride

Wearing my heart out.

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'It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.'

Mark Twain

Me Gustas Quando Callas - Pablo Neruda

Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,

y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.

Parece que los ojos se te hubieren volado

y parece que un beso te cerrara la boca.

Como todas las cosas están llenas de mi alma

emerges de las cosas, llena de alma mía.

Mariposa de sueño, te pareces a mi alma,

y te pareces a la palabra melancolía.

Me gustas cuando callas y estás como distante.

Y estás como quejándote, mariposa en arrullo.

Y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te alcanza:

Déjame que me calle con el silencio tuyo.

Déjame que te hable también con tu silencio

claro como una lámpara, simple como un anillo.

Eres como la noche, callada y constelada.

Tu silencio es de estrella, tan lejano y sencillo.

Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente.

Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto.

Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan.

Y estoy alegre de que no sea cierto.

English

I like you when you are still because it is as if you were absent,

and you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you.

Your eyes seem to have flown

And a kiss seems to have closed your mouth.

Like all things that are filled with my soul

You emerge from the things, filled with my soul.

Butterfly of your dream, you are like my soul,

and you are like a sad world.

I like you when you are still and it is as if you are distant.

And it is as if you are complaining, a butterfly cooing.

And you hear me from afar, and my voice does not reach you.

Allow me to be still in your silence.

Allow me to speak to you, too, with your silence

clear like a lamp, simple like a ring.

You are like the night, still and constellated.

Your silence is that of a star, as distant and plain.

I like when you are still because it is as if you are absent.

Remote and sad as if you had died.

One word then, one smile suffices.

And I am happy, happy that is not certain.

Translation by Alice M.Sun-Cua

Sweet gentle kiss

Morte A Venezia - Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti

Morte a Venezia

Death in Venice