Tag Archives: Portugal

Cesário Verde: Poppies in a Cleavage

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Jason Preater

At that bourgeois picnic, There was something so simple and beautiful, With neither history nor grandeur, Yet worth a watercolour all the same. When you dismounted the donkey, With no foolish pretensions, you went to gather In a blue chickpea-patterned … Continue reading →

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Shadow of Life

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Jason Preater

Texeira de Pascoes (1877-1952) Shadow of life, speak! Come tell me your eternal secret. O Cosmic shadow shine out. I want to find myself on your intimate, suffering breast. I want to see you and get to know you, O … Continue reading →

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Henrique Rabunhal- Dialogue with my lover

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Jason Preater

Dialogue with my lover Listen! Do you feel the wind, shaving the windows ? It is my body which goes around sticking to you, Bled dry in a dream that scales buildings, In bites like hours and like snow. Handed … Continue reading →

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Saudade

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Jason Preater

Fado is music associated with a place.  Like Memphis Blues, Cuban Son, Colombian Cumbia, or Argentinean Tango, Fado celebrates its birthplace, evoking the streets and characters of Lisbon, that ‘city of sailors that never puts out to sea.’  And, just … Continue reading →

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