INGLÊS COM POESIA - Believe This BY RICHARD LEVINE
INGLÊS COM POESIA - Believe This BY RICHARD LEVINE
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believe = acreditar | morning = manhã | yard = quintal | gardener = jardineiro | hidden = escondido | syncopated = sincopado | bouts = séries | guide = guia | church = igreja | beyond = além | deemed = considerado | bounty = generosidade | aching = dor | reached = alcançou
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Believe This
BY RICHARD LEVINE
All morning, doing the hard, root-wrestling
work of turning a yard from the wild
to a gardener's will, I heard a bird singing
from a hidden, though not distant, perch;
a song of swift, syncopated syllables sounding
like, Can you believe this, believe this, believe?
Can you believe this, believe this, believe?
And all morning, I did believe. All morning,
between break-even bouts with the unwanted,
I wanted to see that bird, and looked up so
I might later recognize it in a guide, and know
and call its name, but even more, I wanted
to join its church. For all morning, and many
a time in my life, I have wondered who, beyond
this plot I work, has called the order of being,
that givers of food are deemed lesser
than are the receivers. All morning,
muscling my will against that of the wild,
to claim a place in the bounty of earth,
seed, root, sun and rain, I offered my labor
as a kind of grace, and gave thanks even
for the aching in my body, which reached
beyond this work and this gift of struggle.
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Tereza Costa Rêgo (Pernambuco, Brazil)
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