Poem (Your Favourite)

[Buda]

Of course, life is good
And the joy, the only unspeakable emotion
Of course I think you're beautiful
In thee bless the love of the simple things
Of course I love you
And I have everything to be happy
But it happens that...I'm sad...

Vinicius de Moraes

"É claro que a vida é boa
E a alegria, a única indizível emoção
É claro que te acho linda
Em ti bendigo o amor das coisas simples
É claro que te amo
E tenho tudo para ser feliz
Mas acontece que eu sou triste.." (Portuguese)

 

[hardy]

The door of of my heart is open to you always.

 

[Flanscho]

Not quite like the german original, but the translation ain't bad either.

Decay

On evenings, when the bells of peace are ringing,
I watch the birds' miraculous migration
outstretched in queues, like prilgrims to salvation,
through autumn's clear expanses southward winging;

and strolling through a garden filled by twilight
I dream their fates across the heavens dancing
and hardly feel the hand of time advancing
beyond the clouds on travel through the skylight.

Then shudder I at breaths of waste arraying:
the blackbird wailing in denuded branches,
the crimson vines from rusty fences swaying,

while, like a pallid childrens' dying dances
around the well's dark rim of stones decaying,
blue shiv'ring asters bend in wind's advances.