My five poems “A Christ very little remembered”, “Dangerous Regression”, “Lines I will leave”, “Gloomy Days” and “Will Anyone ever understand?” have been published on the June 5th 2022 issue of “Scarlet Leaf Review”. My thanks to the dear editor Roxana Nastase. Read (and enjoy) it at
http://www.scarletleafreview.com/poems17/category/edison-a-ferreira
On “Return of the Dove, Oil on Canvas, 1851, by John Everett Millais”
Genesis 8.11 – “And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth”
We pretend having our life,
even world’s life, always under control,
from past generations to present days.
Sometimes we feel close to that certainty,
and it is good that this should happen,
giving us some encouragement on the route.
We work with the mind and the heart,
science and desire, on outlining the future,
which we anticipate promising and happy.
Skirting around life’s corners, every so often,
we are faced with frightening facts,
perhaps echoes of ancient Greek tragedies,
poor of hope in the human renaissance.
Wars, revolutions, tyrannies and persecutions,
born on the drumming of soulless men,
have delayed landing in the promised land,
where milk and honey spur and light reigns,
preventing all evil once sown.
A land we have not yet arrived to,
but we heard an approaching sound
of the beating of the wings of the dove
we released in our present generation.
The one that is bringing in its beak
the green branch of the tree of peace
and entire fraternal human feelings
Published in Ekphrastic Review, Dec 20, 2020
My poem “Memorabilia” is published today, May 20th 2022, in the Literary Review “Rudderless Mariner Poetry”. Many thanks to the dear editor Bry White. Read (and enjoy) it at
https://www.rudderlessmarinerpoetry.com/blogpoetrysubmission/memorabilia-by-edilson-a-ferreira
My poem “Guilty a Heart” has been published in the Literary Review West Ward Quarterly, its printed Spring 2022 issue. Many thanks to the dear editor Shirley Anne Leonard.
Suddenly it is the day you were afraid of,
that you questioned yourself from so long,
doubting your strength to face it.
Now it is clear you should not had worried,
you missed happy hours you could have had,
forever lost.
You did not know, but always were in your hands
the tools and weapons to win the fight you feared,
that ambush traced since old times, by they
who neither loved or wished you good things.
We know they planned to eliminate you
and make life easier for them and their acolytes.
Really, your presence nowadays surprises them,
who never expected seeing you alive and stand up.
They are not aware your spirit has been blessed
since ancient ages of justice and righteousness,
what they would never be able to understand.
Moreover, they did not even dream
that venomous and merciless your ancestors
could put you on alert and guide your hands.
Be sure your strength astonished them,
besides all who witnessed your struggle.
You built secure pillars that will last forever,
for entire your offspring.
This poem and all others at this blog, authored by Edilson Afonso Ferreira ©
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My poem “Dangerous Regression” has been published in the Indian Literary Review “The Taj Mahal Review”, its printed December 2021 issue. Many thanks to the dear editor Santoh Kumar.
Lost on the Way
We created money to exculpate and
accommodate a reason for our diversity
and dissimilarity, to separate the happy
and the unhappy, the (so called) worthy
and the unworthy, as if we could modify
the equality of creation.
We settled borders and built different countries,
as if this world had not been given to us in full.
We allowed shelter to evil, so that good
could be fought, giving reason for a judgment
and a sentence at the end of our earthly lives.
Unfortunately, it was not without reason
that Deuteronomy 32-20 tells us of gloomy
and sad decision of the Creator:
“Then he said – I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end will be; for they are
a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness – “
We know nor he or his prophets have yet revoked
cruel and severe such statement.
And the truth is, since then,
we go astray as lost sheep,
and cannot even find the way back.
This poem and all others at this blog, authored by Edilson Afonso Ferreira ©
My poem “Surprise at Dusk” was published on Feb 07 2022 in the Literary Review “Rudderless Mariner Poetry”. Many thanks to the dear editors. Read it at:
https://www.rudderlessmarinerpoetry.com/blogpoetrysubmission/surprise-at-dusk-by-edilson-a-ferreira
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