The Art of Waiting / A Arte de Esperar » Finados http://francesdepontespeebles.com/blog Life on a farm in Brazil. Nossa vida de fazendeiro. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:48:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Finados http://francesdepontespeebles.com/blog/2009/11/02/finados/ http://francesdepontespeebles.com/blog/2009/11/02/finados/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30:46 +0000 pigwhisperer http://francesdepontespeebles.com/blog/?p=139 Today is Finados. It is a day to remember all those who came before us, to light a candle for them, and to commemorate their lives.

    Ancestors

by Harvey Ellis

my ancestors surround me
like walls of a canyon
quiet
stone hard
their ideas drift over me
like breezes at sunset

we gather sticks
and make settlements
what we do is only partly
our own
and partly continuation
down through the chromosomes

my son
my baby sleeps behind me
stirring in the night
for the touch
that lets him continue

he is arranging
in his small form the furniture
and windows of his home

it will be a lot like mine
it will be a lot like theirs

]]> http://francesdepontespeebles.com/blog/2009/11/02/finados/feed/ 0