Picasso

[JTParreira]

Picasso gives us Things
which disorganize our eyes
The lines fly parallel
but later they break away
The faces begin
suddenly by profile
The olden Demoiselles
a today’s shape tomorrow is no more
Picasso leaves the head
our head, irreparable.

(To e.e.cummings)

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

The small feet of Pavlova
grow in the space, jumping
on invisible clouds of air, fragile dawns
almost never they put in the soil
its flight of miniature bird
the golden small feet of Pavlova
as yellow fish in an aquarium of wind.

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

The moon dived in the waterfalls.

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

We wait for cross the crowd
on the beach, we cross arms
photographic legs, breasts
raised for the fire of the beauty
we pass over sand castles, and the air
does not support our body
we fall into the sea
soon we will walk across the Atlantic.

(To Billy Collins)

J.T.Parreira

[Pendragon]

I like all of them except the one line haiku. I confess I've never like them that way even from Ginsberg. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif

[JTParreira]

Man and bull disarm one another
bodies touch
as arrows reach their targets
touching his suit of lights
and the bull's dark hide
coloring the wind
and the soil of the bullring
man and bull
do not deny the contest
until blood soaks the sand.

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

Everything that comes after
the fire, will be the substance
of the ash;
what comes after the storm,
a place
where I will remake the potteries
and will mold the clay;
everything that comes after
the voice, the echo of a name
of a love unexpected.

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

To Allen Ginsberg



When will I be able to go to Safeway

with this heart in my hand?

I will pay for the wine and the milk

flaunting my boldeness.

I will use fingers

as a bar code

that always says the truth.


J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

To Alvaro de Campos/Fernando Pessoa

It does not have nothing
to make, with the window
they come ice glasses
and the night's deep.

It will never be anything
more than a window
despite the light inside of itself.
It can´t wish to be nothing.
But it has in itself eyes
for all the dreams of the world.
It has millions of these rooms in the world
with walls underneath of pictures
with moistness in the Landscapes
and the Nature Morte.

J.T.Parreira

[motherhubbard]

I enjoyed some of your phrases, they had something like a long lost feel to them like. I just can’t follow the first stanza, I can’t see the picture you are trying to create. Keep in mind you are working with a feeble mind.

[Pendragon]

Are you perhaps discribing an abandoned building where they used to be busy but now no one ever visits?

[blp]

Brilliant.

[kandaurov]

The title caught my eye, I wondered, 'who's ripping off Fernando Pessoa?' :p Glad to see it was a tribute, and a good one too. I can see traits which we portuguese call 'pessoanos': the "It can´t wish to be nothing" bit, and the "But it has in itself eyes / for all the dreams of the world" which immediately follows. I neither can write good poetry nor can I sometimes understand the words' and images' underlying meaning, but I can recognise a good poem when I see one. Well done.

[JTParreira]

Warhol, the dust has fallen
on the floor
a heart attack
of the ceiling close to our eyes
from the sky
light falls, your shadow
falls on the floor.


J.T.Parreira

[blp]

Quite nicely done and it could be said to have echoes of some of Warhol's work in its evocation of dust (diamond dust pictures) and indexical signs (shadows/photos), but it does feel as if it could go further. It's not too clear what you're really saying about Warhol.

By the way, you want 'light falls' not 'lights falls'.

[JTParreira]

faces contemplate me
of photographs album -

seated
in front of them

I can be
in silence,

to see
close the past.

J.T.Parreira

[Pendragon]

Nice. Minimalism sometimes makes a very good poem! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Appaluse.gif

[Pendragon]

I'm in agreement with Blp, unless you are trying to have the moonlight and shadows paint Warhol's picture on the floor. THAT would be a neat twist, only I think I'd use the term "silkscreen" instead of "paint" if you go that route! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Bond.gif

[JTParreira]

Windmills in the sky.
A Quixote goes breaking
one to one the clouds.



The African peak
In winter sleeps so soundly
under soft white sheets...





J.T.Parreira

[symphony]

I'm not that good in counting syllables myself, but the first one here looks like 4-6-5 to me, but again- i may be wrong. And the second one probably is a 6-6-4. So...i dont really know if these can be called haikus since my knowledge(or ignorance) tells me haikus are 3-liners with a syllable limit of 5,6 and 5 for each line respectively. Let me know if i'm wrong and if it can be otherwise, since i'm a bit confused about this myself.

[Pendragon]

Symphony is correct in that you don't have haiku form right: A breakdown of your syllabels, which should be 5-7-5




Mills/ in /the /sky. 4
A /Qui/xo/te goes/ break/ing 7
one/ to/ one/ the/ clouds. 5

Only off by one, so easily fixed. Add "Wind" to "Mills."



The/ Kil/i/man/ja/ro 6
in win/ter sleeps ear/ly 6
un/der white sheet. 4

This one is harder to fix. You could try:

The African peak
In winter sleeps so soundly
under soft white sheets...


Never give up! Keep the poetry flowing! Why do we fall? So we can get up again, lesson learned! Best of luck!

Pen

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[JTParreira]

Thanks for your words and subsidies to improvement the poems. I know that the syllables of haikus are 5-7-5, but as poets we can have poetical freedom, right?
The haikus in my own language:


A Serra da Estrela- 5
no inverno dorme cedo - 7
sob alvo lençol. - 5


Moinhos no céu. -5
Um Quixote vai partindo -7
uma a uma as nuvens. - 5

Best,
Joao

[Pendragon]

Yes. Poetic licence. BTW, Joao, I'm flattered, but you didn't need to use my suggestions. Never take them unless you really believe them improve your poem. Poetic licence works for many forms of poetry, but the Japanese forms which depend on syllable count do not work easily with that poetic licence. What I have seen done is what is known as one line haiku-- the 17 syllables in one descriptive line.

Best od luck.

Pen.

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[JTParreira]

We wait for to cross the crowd
on the beach, we cross arms
photographic legs, breasts
raised for the fire of the beauty
we pass over sand castles, and the air
does not support our body
we fall in the sea
soon we will walk across the Atlantic.


(To Billy Collins)

J.T.Parreira

[JTParreira]

«Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands»
e.e.cummings


Nothing, not even the rain
has such small drops
as the tears that move
inside of the heart.
And the small hands that go up
for the face of the mothers? Nobody
like them has the key
for so small clouds.
Nobody, not even the silence
has such small hands
to open so closed domain.

j.t.parreira