Fernando Pinto do Amaral Poems

The greatest motivation in his life
was perhaps curiosity.

It drove him on: he approached
...

Tonight I died many times over, waiting
for a sudden dream to come
and dance in the dark with my soul
as long as it were you who led
...

I don't know what a spirit is. No one
knows in depth the light of his own abyss
as at night the wind opens
the infinite doors of an empty
...

You'll be back here, you'll feel
the world's stupidity like a pendulum
striking the right hours
in the rhythm of days, weeks,
...

My contemporaries speak a lot
and say: "So, here's how it is"
in the brazen manner of ones fed
...

Lay down your arms, go on, stop giving in
to the wills of others manoeuvring you
like a lost pawn in this game
with no rules or truths which might dress you
...