Reponho uma poesia do poemário Amanhecer obscuro:

Once… a few verses

Once I wrote a few verses

there were nightingales on your fingers,

green snakes grew up from your hair

as if Spring was inside you

I wrote a few more

but I can’t remember them

they were destroyed

by the acid only time has

someone told me

that using the word acid

was good for my poetry

critics love reading

this word trough the poems

oh critics, see how well

I use the word acid!

What? No, I am not a chemist

nor even a grammarian

I just draw words

without knowing the meaning

If I was a poet, pardon, a critic

or a thin literate, I should know

that nightingales belong to the dawn

and snakes to the Scriptures.

Spring is a question of Cancer

or Capricorn, all depends on latitude.

I am not a geographer

and I have to finish some verses:

there were nightingales on your fingers,

green snakes grew up from your hair

as if was Spring inside you…

If you don’t mind!

António Eduardo Lico