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Hello dear readers! It's with great pleasure that I come to Scholar and Scribe community once again to participate in Dreem-WOTW monthly contest managed by my dear friend @samsmith1971. This month we are being challenged to include one or more of the five elements - Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and (A)ether.
👀 If you wish to participate please go to Sam's post for more information. 👀
For today's post, I'm gonna present to the Hive blockchain two poems written by the deepest part of my soul, with a little surprise in the middle. Both of these poems were quite hard to write but not in a "negative" kind of way. I only mean it took a while to get out, I had to push it a bit to see where the journey took me.
Took a while for the truth to be turned into a reality... I gotta tell you, this month's WOTW theme couldn't be more accurate as for today I have planned a deep dive into my soul.
Care to join me, dear reader?
Image from Engin_Akyurt on Pixabay
But first of all, I feel I should give a little context as is for the reason I'm choosing to share 2 poems for WOTW. The first I'm about to share was not originally intended for this contest nor was written with a picture of the five elements in my mind. To me, it only makes sense to share them both as one can be an explanation for the other.
Like each side of the coin, one poem's emotions and expressions cannot exist without the other. I see a duality forever present in my writings that I'm hoping you, dear reader, can also see. I believe the most attentive readers will understand why I chose to share it with the WOTW theme.
Lastly, I'm going to take this opportunity to pay an overdue promise that I made my friend @samsmith1971 a while ago... Sam, can you guess which one is it?
Prepare yourself for this crazy, yet beautiful, boat ride.
Raiva [PT] / Rage [ENG]
Image from LeandroDeCarvalho on Pixabay
Raiva
Para quê lutar contra
O que é natural?
Tão bem espelhados nesta montra
De trauma geracional
A cólera que fervilha
E me rompe as entranhas...
Sou eu a merda da filha
Desta puta artimanha!
Para a ira eu sentir
Apenas tenho duas escolhas:
Ou a deixo explodir
Ou lhe coloco cinco rolhas.
Na primeira rompo relações,
Na segunda, um acumular de frustrações
Ao que see somam umas quantas escoriações.
Mas que merda de seleções!
E lá volto eu a meditar
Naquilo que me faz acreditar...
Este gigante excremento
Que é an verdade o meu fundamento.
Aquilo que eu sou por dentro...
Rage
Why fight against
What's natural?
So well mirrored in this display
Of generational pain
The fury that bubbles up
And ruptures my insides...
I am the fucking child
Of this godforsaken trial!
For the wrath to go
I only have two paths:
Either I let it blast
Or turn into a puppets show.
In the former, I break connections,
In the second, endless frustrations
To which are added a few abrasions.
What a bunch of fucking reflections!
Meditating I go and leave
On what makes me believe...
This gigantic excrement
Which is actually my fundament.
What I am within my deep...
Translated with the help of DeepL
Naufrágio [PT] / Shipwerck [ENG]
Image by Pexels on Pixabay
Naufrágio
Navego por este rio,
Aquele a que chamo vida.
Chega a ser tão sombrio
Que me deixa dividida.
Tal é este sufoco
Em auto-depreciação
Não será este barco oco?
Desprovido de qualquer emoção.
Naufrágio este que me deixa
Presa nesta ilha pois,
Pois é a minha maior queixa
É deixar o amor-próprio p'ra depois.
As gotas transbordam no olhar
Pois é com grande pesar
Que me esqueço de contemplar
Com um mínimo de compaixão
Antes que a terra see torne o meu caixão.
Apenas uma pequena benevolência,
Como prémio da resiliência.
Shipwerck
I sail down this river,
The one I call living.
And it gets so shady
It leaves me splintered.
Such is this suffocation
In self-deprecation
Isn't this boat hollow?
So tough to follow.
This shipwreck that leaves me
Trapped on this island,
That's my biggest problem.
It's leaving self-love for another.
The drops overflow my gaze
For it is with great controversy
That I forget to behold myself
With a modicum of mercy
Before the earth becomes my coffin.
Just a little benevolence,
As a reward for resilience.
Translated with the help of DeepL
Final notes 💭
Ufff, this turned out not such an easy post to write either! I always find translating poems to be really tricky since my poems are always originally in Portuguese. But I'm content with the end result and I hope you, dear reader, enjoyed it as well!
The tune I played in the ocarina (that little flute on the video) is a lullaby from a game called Zelda - Ocarina of time, a bit slower because I'm still a noob. Here you have the link to the original song, in a much more pleasant tune. Although I don't sound perfect in the video, I realise I probably never will so I thought to go ahead and publish it anyway ( (note to self - and not because I spend almost 2 hours recording for a 1 min song 😅) .
That's it from me today, dear reader! This is my entry for the S3R1 Dreem-WOTW contest.
Thank you so much for taking this dive with me 🤗🙏🙌
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Aws the nostalgia of the zelda tune. Have you given the lost woods one a try? :D
Hey there @acidyo 😊 so happy to see you here! I actually never tried lost woods, the one I played is the only one I know 😆
My partner is a fan of zelda an I offered him this ocarina last Christmas. He says that "lost woods" is probably the most difficult one to play 😅😅
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and don't mean to put you on the spot as it might be a harder one to learn, it's just one that stuck out to me the most and I've gone back to and listened every now and then + some remixes :D
I really like zelda's songs as well! To me they are really relaxing 😊 in my household it's frequent to listen someone whistling some zelda tune heheh
I'll check a tutorial of that lost woods song to see if it's that hard to learn, when I find the time 🙌
Wow! This is superb my dear friend. I so love your poem entry for dreemwotw. This is beautifully written and so creative.
Thank you so much, !LADY 😊🙌 I really appreciate your feedback 🤗
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This is one beautiful and insightful poem filled with deep reflections of self-actualization and self-thoughts of reality in connection with the battles we fight in mind. Awesomeness dearest daisy🫶
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Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful words 🙏🤗 I'm really happy you enjoyed my poems
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Both poems are superb and I really enjoyed the dive with you especially with the Shipwreck poem although I don't know how to swim 😂
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Hey there @luchyl 🤗 I'm delighted to know how much you liked my poems! It's not always easy to transmit the same message after translating it but I'm glad you liked it 🙌
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This was so wonderful, my friend. I did read it sometime back but have been waiting for a time to catch up on all my comments. Kids are back at school this coming week so life will return to normality for a while (whatever that is) hahaha. But I think the school term routine at least allows me to have more evening time for my own pursuits. I think you played that beautifully and I am so happy that you went back and learned that! I happen to think you have more tunes in you, crying to be played on that little magical number hehe.
And now... enough of the self-deprecation, my lovely. You are amazing, and you best start believing that! You are not going to struggle under the shadow of the legacy of your past. You are going to do fabulously with your new venture. I can't wait to hear more about your next steps. I know you are going to be fantastic! Just keep things simple, and take it one step at a time. But believe in yourself. I'm rooting for you and all the people you will end up helping along the way. Stunning poems! More please 💗🙏
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Ohhh my dear Sam, thank you so much!! Your kind words and compassion are my light 😊🤗 I'm really happy you enjoyed my poems and the ocarina song! Let's see what the future holds and what melodies come out along the way hehehe
And yes, that is enough of self-deprecation! I'm putting a stop to it forever 💪💪💪. From now on, I'm gonna shower myself with compassion, love and kindness ❤️
It was my pleasure to enter dreem-wowt! !LOL Thank you again for providing such wonderful opportunities 😍
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