
Why Do We Dress The Soul?
I find myself frequently thinking
Why we dress the soul…
We should leave her always nude, innocent
Like nature
You leave her simply to bloom
Like a rural plant
To absorb the love, as she captures the sunshine
That peeps among the morning thick fog
And let her fall asleep covered by the mantle of the moonlit
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Because my soul is simple
In that it sees the simple things
It likes to speak with nature
And question many times
How do we feel the flowers of the vases
And the ones of the stonemasons in the gardens
Compared with the ones that are born in the meadows and in the forests
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Yes, because the sun that crosses the high whiteness of the forest
It is not the same that enters through the windows of a house
And the sun that stretches on the meadows
It is not the same as it is when it peeps over the wall of a garden
It is then I think…
Do the plants have a soul to notice that?
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It is again I wonder…
Why we dress the soul?
I am confused in my inner ocean
Swimming in these uncertain waves
With the moon in the horizon
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© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
Feel With Imagination
For among seas of fears
And murmuring silences
I’ve learned ....
To feel with imagination
Before feeling with the heart
To enjoy the feeling that moves me
To save the dreams that I want to dream
To follow the pulsing of my body
Which tells me of its lived experience
And I give freedom to my soul
To suffice itself
I am a daughter of the earth
of the sun and of the moon
I want to conquer the world in a single hug
I want a life of whole body
And in a daring that amazes me
I want a love so full, so immense
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Within Myself…
There are times
When I lie down with the nature
I feel her soul
I feel her confound with mine
I let myself diverge in its multiplicity
And I give up of me
Of my wanting
I follow her
To be beyond me
I'm too incomplete
To remain only within myself…
Taken by the spirit of the sun
I follow there, the mystic of my I
Ignoring the mysteries of the thought
Observing from outside
The landscape of my soul
Harvesting another consciousness
Poetic, almost divine
Plain of harmony
And That, that was my soul restlessness
Solace in the tranquillity that finds
With in myself
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Wondering Thoughts …
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Sometimes I hear my thoughts
They are like sensations
I can feel them, smell them
Even taste them
They can be too eager
To live all at once
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And there are times I think
That I should learn to forget
To forget all those lived sensations
To forget everything, mainly people
I still sense
And learn them again
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Certain people are bubbles
Passengers, fragile
If we touch them they dissolve
Some are more beautiful than the other ones
But their beauty is in the way I see them
If I simply like them
Or if I learn to like them
Then I find them more beautiful
But it should not be like this
We should find them all beautiful
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It is why I think we should learn to forget
So we learn to like them again
Even those that I never liked
It is good to always be learning
To learn people
To learn the feelings
To learn to see the other ones
As we see ourselves
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© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
If I was a Poet...
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Some poets are philosophers
others, simply dreamers
there are also the poets who are artists
they work their verses
as if they are carving a sculpture
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But I am not a poet
I only let my pen flow as I feel
Without thinking, like breathing
Like a primitive being
That sees the daily sun being born
As if it was for the first time
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I don't see mystery in the poetry
She springs from the soul as a river
Made of pure moments
In this imperfect world
And I enjoy her beauty
Leaving my senses
To feel her inner life
© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
Because I Exist Everyday I discover things And i am amazed with this reality then I feel complete because I am part of it because I exist When I observe the nature around me I just try to feel the things I look at a stone, there on the ground and I admire it, not for its beauty but for its insensibility the things of the nature are also insensible But I like to feel them Like when I feel the wind touch me slowly I like the touch of the wind but I find her sad, embittered even when she is calm as she is today or stormed, hitting everything in her passage I cant imagine her without feelings The sea… The sea has an enormous power over me I simply adore her I can hear her murmuring smoothly Like a caress she seems to be resting from the tormenting days it must be because it is spring also because the sun has joined us sometimes I forget that the she is not a person because I can understand what she says I think she likes to talk with me and I with her But the moon is jealous and she decided to joined us it is not normal for moon to appear during the sun light she is beautiful, full between two white clouds that decorate the sky we welcome to the moon I also like the moon I like the soft, velvet moonlight I am happy, in my favourite picture 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved Without Thinking….
I am born at each moment
In the eternal innovation of this world
For roads and shortcuts
Desiring the innocence of not thinking
I sit down under the tree
She lends me her shadow
It covers me with her perfume
Without asking me anything in exchange
That one, another tree
She gives wonderful fruits
Without worrying with whom eats them
Because a tree doesn't think
Why should she think?
It is enough to make us happy
I close the curtains of my eyes
Not to think in the sense of the things
To be simple and calm
Like the tree and the flowers
I let the sunshine penetrate me
Because the sun is natural
And her light is innocent
The horizon calls my eyes
And I let them go without thinking….
© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
Daughter Of The Light
She came to my life
Like a sunbeam
Touching my isolated soul
Burning in my own abyss
She showed me how to see things
From within myself
As if it was from a landscape
The landscape of my soul
To see how imperfectly divine we are
Because we are simply humans
She thinks like she dreams
Irradiating light in each smile
Transmitting peace in each word
Defoliating life as if it was a flower
with a whole soul, guiltless
Touching me so deeply
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The flame of life
She looks at me in silence
and in secret she asks me for myself
who am I and what I dream
there is so much peace in her look
I don't know what to tell her
I am captured by that hypnotic gaze
as I surrender to my will
it’s an enormous will to stay
She listens to me murmuring in silence
she sees the pain sculpted within my soul
she caresses the eternal storms
of my exalted loves
Her voice is deep, immense
it protects me from dark dreams
she undresses the night of her mystery
and tells me about the sea and of the saudade
She shows me human madness
and how we would be without that madness
she lights the flame of life
and dances like one who moves with the earth
She takes me by the hand and smiles
tells me never to stop dreaming
but also, to dream of the invisible forms
and an undiscovered love
© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
To Be a Poet
To be a poet is to be a dreamer
To harvest a flower with a glance
To dream like one who breathes, naturally
Not wanting to understand more than is felt
To love just for love, hopelessly
To kiss like one who dreams, innocently
To be a poet is to embrace madness
To live in an eternal search
To be reborn in each moment
To be a vagabond of thinking
To see life happening and smile
To rest in a fatigue of being
To be a poet is to be a Painter
To paint like one who learns, with fervour
To exalt love like those who are loved
To keep gazing at the ignited flame
To yell to the world with ardent passion
To feel a contented discontent
© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
A Soul Of Poetry
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She came with a mission
But she forgot it
Becoming unaware of her own self
Rambling in the unconsciousness
Of Life's drowsiness
Letting the time pass before her eyes
Without seeing it
Looking at the roads that follow her
The roads of her steps
Unknown to her she followed
The footsteps of her own making
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One day
The time that was passing, stopped
Without knocking, entered
Tenuously
Ascended a consciousness of life
Questioning herself...
Why does she exist?
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She looks back
Through that consciousness
And she met a tedium wall
To be thrown down
Pieces of rage, drifting
To be reconciled
Echoes of life, muffled
To be comprehended
A closed heart
Listened
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She realizes...
On that brief glimpse of life's horizon
A cheerful conscience of
The lightness of the unconsciousness
Like a charming melody
Revealing itself
As a soul of poetry
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© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
Drawing a thought ...
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In this dance that is life
Sometimes, dreams are triturated
For hostile realities
Implacable ironies
Abysses of egoisms
Or just...
Human fragilities
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We are all orphans of love...
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I need to escape
From the dreams' thieves
Drawing in my thought
A sentiment
O a dreamed life
To be lived
Born in a world
Of Sacred passions
Innocent feelings
In a transparent soul
Profound
Where reason is sublime
And love is not temporal
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A Being’s Manifesto
Mystic eyes cross themselves
Plots of enchantment are read
Bodies so light they barely touch
No gags silencing the silence
Heavy breaths…
A long embrace is formed
In a unlinking of forms
Of an interior vision
Comes a human existence
In an unique individual thought
Full of untouchable moments
Indifferent to its path
From a lazy nostalgia
Raises an eulogy to desire
Souls crossing the fire
Vagrant bodies
Mouths crushed
Delicious symbols of pleasure
Exhausted incognitos
In a being’s manifesto
© 2007 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
Time
There is so much time
So much
That the source dried
The sun perished
The trunk withered
And the thirst died
There is so much time
So much
That the days are centuries
The nights are wrinkled
The space a drained tumult
And the air a bale
There is so much time
So much
That the death is carried
The grief is swallowed
The thunder vanished
And everything faded
My Heart Is A Thinker
My heart is a thinker
It’s not enough for it to feel
Sometimes my heart thinks and aches
Those thoughts hurt its feelings
The ones that worry it
Those that make the soul ill…
My eyes rest on the landscape
But my heart cannot rest, cannot stop
My heart is relaxed by the silent sound of the land
And the borrowed image of my eyes
Softens the storms of his thoughts
On the fatigue of her thoughts
Within the her own fatigue
My heart beats mostly, a life of love
Giving the soul the energetic fire of passion
That vibrates, forgetting her anxieties
My heart is a thinker
I wish I could paint his thoughts
His sensations and feelings
Like Michelangelo
Eternalizing his sentiment
Especially the ones of you
She shares with me…
© 27-02-2008 Fernanda F. Rocha. All rights reserved
The Other Side Of Life
I dreamed that I died
Everything in me extinguished
The scarce light
Faded slowly
And all my body froze
Then, a little later
A strong light appeared
And I
The one who dreamed that I had died
Who felt the cold of death
Discovered that I lived
When the night was made day
I felt myself rise in space
I saw myself abandon my body
Leaving another one
Of that one that there I saw
And in a light that tore night
A life of another was born
That ravishing light
It was a calling
An encounter
It was the life of the which I was born
Calling me again to itself
It was sweet that lightness
It was the dream of my dream
You will return, it's said
You didn't accomplish your stage
You will return one day