FAREWELL MANCHESTER

28 04 2009


You’ve managed to stop an incorrigible adventurous vagabond like myself, and keep me interested for almost 5 years with something fresh new almost everyday…
 
I’ve learn to find wisdom on your humble nobless as to appreciate the greatness of your brick pride and I’ve reach myself some of my highest dreams in your usually grey skies…
 
Now seems to be time for a break and I’m not sure if I’ll be back anytime… but you’ve got allready a very special place in my heart, you’ve became my second home, soon after my home-city Lisbon, where I’m returning now..
 
I know I will miss you, but one way or another I’ll keep revisiting you on my memories…
Keep rocking…Don’t cry too much
 
 
  

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BLUE blue BLUE

26 04 2009


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Oxfordshire
I want the good, I want the bad, and in the end I want nothing.
I toss in bed, uncomfortable on my right side, on my left side,
And on my consciousness of existing.
I’m universally uncomfortable, metaphysically uncomfortable,
But what’s even worse is my headache.
That’s more serious than the meaning of the universe.

Once, while walking in the country around Oxford,
I saw up ahead, beyond a bend in the road,
A church steeple towering above the houses of a hamlet or village.
The photographic image of that non-event has remained with me
Like a horizontal wrinkle marring a trouser’s crease.
Today it seems relevant…
From the road I associated that steeple with spirituality,
The faith of all ages, and practical charity.
When I arrived at the village, the steeple was a steeple
And, what’s more, there it was.

You can be happy in Australia, as long as you don’t go there.

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Oxfordshire
Quero o bem, e quero o mal, e afinal não quero nada.
Estou mal deitado sobre a direita, e mal deitado sobre a esquerda
E mal deitado sobre a consciência de existir.
Estou universalmente mal, metafisicamente mal,
Mas o pior é que me dói a cabeça.
Isso é mais grave que a significação do universo.

Uma vez, ao pé de Oxford, num passeio campestre,
Vi erguer-se, de uma curva da estrada, na distância próxima
A torre-velha de uma igreja acima de casas da aldeia ou vila.
Ficou-me fotográfico esse incidente nulo
Como uma dobra transversal escangalhando o vinco das calças.
Agora vem a propósito…
Da estrada eu previa espiritualidade a essa torre de igreja
Que era a fé de todas as eras, e a eficaz caridade.
Da vila, quando lá cheguei, a torre da igreja era a torre da igreja,
E, ainda por cima, estava ali.

É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá.

 
 
 
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PIM PAM PUM

25 04 2009


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THE TOWER AND THE TREES

24 04 2009




STRIPES STRIPES STRIPES

24 04 2009




BRICK POETRY

23 04 2009
All equal ; all different …
 
All equal ; all different … and getting green
 
All equal ; all different … and multiplying 

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

22 04 2009

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SPIKES

21 04 2009

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PRETTY WHITE

20 04 2009

…in a city made of brick

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TRACING THE MANCHESTER SKYLINE(S)

18 04 2009
As seen from the top of the Aquactics Centre Car-Park  

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