Uma poesia do poemário The sentiment of a poet:

Never use the word dragon in a poem

Dragon is an horrific word to use in a poem.

I use it because I’m writing it

writing it, I’m using it

if I wasn’t using it, I wasn’t writing it

and dragons couldn’t exist in my poem.

I shouldn’t use the word “because”…

See, “dragon” and “because” in a poem…

I know what you all are thinking:

I should express like that:

voyons “dragon” and “because” in a poem…

and even worse I used the word “if”.

Don’t believe I am a esthete

or should I write aesthete?

Whatever I am, I write words, however

I’m not the sophist so much waited.

Silence is my speech, is my dragon,

a word I should avoid in a poem.

Never use the word dragon in a poem;

if use it, you have to write it,

and after? Your fate is becoming an aesthete

what inconvenient! Someone can think

you want to be the next Canterbury Archbishop.

Voyons a dragon or a Canterbury Archbishop

Are not enough esoteric to be on a poem;

If they are aesthetic examples, it is because

one is dragon the other archbishop

and both are unreal in a poem.

I didn’t wanted to finish in a sophistic mood,

this poem was intended to be lyric.

António Eduardo Lico