Autumnal. {poetry}
By Wagner Miranda.
so the autumn leaves,
leaving uncountable traces
of a feeling eager to rise,
to embrace
wise would be the coincidence
to make it rise,
the complicity
of she and I
here’s a little secret of mine:
I throw apples on her window
to keep my love awake
to keep it light and far away
gentle daydream sails my soul away
so little i know about forgetting
it’s still tomorrow here, what explains
why i love you so much today
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Wagner Miranda was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1982, and has lived in Cork, Ireland since 2010, having finished his studies in Translation (English to Brazilian Portuguese) in 2009 at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo of São Paulo. His early writings in Portuguese have been published on online collaboration websites and his bilingual book “Adeus do Porto” has been published in Brazil in May 2013. He is also the founder of the virtual poetry/music collective de nihilo nihil.
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