Verão: Iogurte lírico 1

Mother, Summer, I

My mother, who hates thunder storms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there;
But when the August weather breaks
And rains begin, and brittle frost
Sharpens the bird-abandoned air,
Her worried summer look is lost,

And I her son, though summer-born
And summer-loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone
Too often summer days appear
Emblems of perfect happiness
I can't confront:I must await
A time less bold, less rich, less clear:
An autumn more appropriate.

Philip Larkin

White Winter Hymnal from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

All hail the men in black (and the girl too, actually...)



(quero lá saber de Beijing, pá. Nunca mais começa a bola)

Sobre o Verão: era exactamente isto que eu ia dizer, juro.

«Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.»

- Robert Browning