About Living
Gabriela Lages Veloso
My home is the world.
A ship without a port.
My food is alms.
Rain in the desert.
Invisible, that I am,
I walk forever and never.
Selene
I'm part of the universe,
but I'm not adrift.
I am attracted by a
force greater than myself,
bigger than life,
bigger than everything.
I'm made up of phases.
Metamorphosis in progress.
I am the reflection of starlight.
A solar mirror.
I am the silence of the night.
A silence that pulses and screams.
A silence that controls the tides.
Silence, light and shadow.
Gaia
With every turn, a new cycle.
I'm trapped in the sands of time.
Days, months, years go by, and
here I am. I have witnessed many
stories of this being that lives in me.
As the mother that I am,
I've watched all the the footsteps
of my children in caves,
villages, kingdoms, empires,
metropolises and in the
what is yet to come on this long road.
Trapped in the hands of the clock,
I watched endless wars,
the passing of countless seasons.
Flower, leaf, snow and sun.
I've seen life reappear,
love remain, a new cycle begin,
dream or freedom?
The sea of glass
In your cold, deep blade,
there are mysteries
hidden, the fear of
confrontation with hidden
truths or, who knows
simply getting lost.
Your hard water reflects
and enchants the Narcissus,
leading he to eternal discontent.
Your cold fire reveals
the inner beast that
tries to hide.
Mirror, you are the pit
deepest that exists.
In a single glance
you cross the barriers
of time and life.
Magical, dark
or true, just,
you are a sea of glass.
The Sea
No one has ever touched
your mystery. You have this
immensity that crosses
horizons, but a
shell contains you.
On the surface, all
we can see is a
mirror disturbed by the
waves. A strong wind
insists on rocking your
salt-laden waters.
In the depths
you hear is the echo of
your silence, which shouts, to the
the four winds, stories
shipwrecked by time.
On this journey, you have the
moon as your guide of the tides.
Whoever crosses
your waters, even
with just a glance,
feels the difficult freedom
to return to port.
Gabriela Lages Veloso is a Brazilian writer, poet and literary critic. She is studying for a Master's degree in Literature at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA). She is currently a columnist for Imirante.com and Feminário Conexões. She collaborates with collections and magazines in Brazil and abroad. She is the author of the books Através dos Espelhos de Guimarães Rosa e Jostein Gaarder: reflexos e figurações (Editora Diálogos, 2021) and O Mar de Vidro (Caravana, 2023). She is also the organizer of the anthology Poéticas Contemporâneas: uma cartografia da escrita de mulheres (Brecci Books, 2023) and the collection of short stories, chronicles and poems As Sombras da Cidade (Brecci Books, 2024). Her book of poetry O Mar de Vidro (2023) is already part of the collection of several libraries around the world.
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