Alcácer do Sal |
Determinadas e pacientes, não abandonam os ninhos, nem a esperança de prol, apesar do frio que faz de Abril oposto outono.
Cabo Sardão |
Seguras na certeza do instinto, há muito que deixaram de acreditar em histórias de belos pássaros que trazem filhos de terras distantes. Agora, só a verdade lhes importa, e essa em breve eclodirá do esforço que pai e mãe repartem, alheios ao vento que, talvez por detestar crianças, grita zangado.
Sabem-se parte do mundo e não ousam partir, por agora. Como outros fizeram, quando a pátria se esperançava tão maior que a verdade. Homens grandes, homens pássaro, homens cegonha
Vila Nova de Milfontes |
Sarmento de Beires, Brito Pais, Manuel Gouveia
A imensa atração do ar, de ir - porque grandes são os que procuram - num tempo em que o mundo ainda tinha longe.
Hoje, o mundo definhou, alcança-se com os dedos, declina-se com um motor de busca. A terra de ontem perdeu-se para os almanaques e para as estátuas.
Vila Nova de Milfontes
Os barcos já o perceberam e julgando-se inúteis procuram cemitério na praia ou escondem-se humildes na mesma água onde antes se impuseram,
Vila Nova de Milfontes
Vila Nova de Milfontes
agora que as armérias dizem flor ao pé das pedras e zelam pelo fim de mais um dia, que, cansado, recolhe com a maré.
Cabo Sardão
Determined and patient they won’t abandon their nests nor the hope of offspring, in spite of the cold that turns april into autumn.
Assured by the certainty of instinct, they believe no longer in tales of beautiful birds bringing children over from distant lands. Only the truth matters nowadays, and it will soon hatch from the effort that father and mother share, oblivious to the wind that yells madly, probably out of dislike for children.
They know they are a part of the world and, for now, they refuse to leave. Unlike others have done, when the idea of homeland was so much bigger than the truth. Great Men, Birdmen, Storkmen!
Sarmento de Beires, Brito Pais, Manuel Gouveia
The irrevocable attraction of the air, of going – great are those that search – in a time when there was still a place for distance in the world.
The same world that today has dwindled and that can now be grasped by the fingers, and declined with a search engine. The Earth of yesterday has been lost to almanacs and statues.
Ships have fully understood it and, believing themselves useless, search for cemetery on beaches or humbly hide themselves in the same water where they proudly stood before, now that the armerias spell flower amidst rocks and stones, overwatching the end of another day, that, tired, recedes with the tide.
Vila Nova de Milfontes
Nice post... made me think that perhaps our fascination for aviation is our fascination to see far, unknown places that would take us away from our reality.
ResponderEliminarHola Diego,
ResponderEliminarGracias por tus palabras, siempre generosas.
Part of it, yes, but I believe it to be rather a sum of parts where fascination for the machines, both as objects of art and engineering feats, admiration for the courage of the explorers, curiosity, longing for going, in a word, the romantic aura of all things air (that’s probably why I so much admire dragonflies and butterflies….)
Pedro, you should create real paper books of your themes and photos and thoughts. You can do this online using Snapfish or similar to create books that you can keep on the shelf for when the blog dies :)
ResponderEliminarLove your photos Sx
Hi again Sylvia
Eliminarthanks for the idea. I might do that some day. I should print my photos too. I should have more time... damn it, I should retire, I have so much to do :-)
Beijos
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