Maybe because I prefer to be his pupil forever,

sometimes I don’t find myself having thoughts of my own

nor do I adventure to live in a new world,

different of this one you have always given us.

This is a world that enchants and leaves us comfortable,

and, with exceptions we always deplore,  

once we follow what we were taught,

we have had happy times,

bright dawns and superb afternoons.

Not that we are tired, dissatisfied or incredulous,

with the roadmap you have given us since long ago.  

Would it be ill-advised to ask you to touch the hearts

and minds of some of our fellow ones, those adverse

to the good coexistence and human fraternity?

Those who seem to take pleasure in transgressing

and circumventing the laws you and we have enacted?

You know they are always postponing and making unfeasible

the path we have tried to follow, which will lead us, one day,

to the land you promised, where flow abundantly honey

and milk, and evil never finds shelter.

This poem and all others at this blog, authored by Edilson Afonso Ferreira ©

Sharing with friends my poem “Stumbles, Ambushes, and Spells”, today published in the November 2023 issue of the Literary Review 7THCircle Pyrite. Many thanks to the dear editor Keiraj M. Gilles. https://www.7thcirclepyrite.com/post/stumbles-ambushes-and-spells

Sharing with friends my poem “Hope”, just published in the printed Literary Review “WestWard Quarterly”, its Fall 2023 issue. Many thanks to the dear editors Richard Leonard and Shirley Anne Leonard.

Sharing with friends my five poems “A Cherished Dream”, “Pride”, “Fears, Feelings and Wants”, “The Land we will reach” and “Blessed Inheritance”, today published on the Literary Site “Fevers of the Mind”. Many thanks to the dear editor David O” Nan. https://feversofthemind.com/2023/09/18/a-fevers-of-the-mind-poetry-showcase-edilson-afonso-ferreira/

Sharing with friends my poem “Money, as Viewed by a Poet”, just published in the summer 2023 printed issue of “Westward Quarterly”, page 15. Many thanks to the dear editor Shirley Anne Leonard.

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Sharing with friends my five poems “Dreaming of a New World”; “My Family, Wars and Love”; “Days of Fury”; “Stumbles, Ambushes, and Spells”, “Fallen into Oblivion”, today published in the Literaary Review “Fevers of the Mind”. Many thank to the dear editor David L. O’Nan.

A Poetry Showcase from Brazilian Poet Edilson Afonso Ferreira

We are jealous of our lives, our desires,

and accomplishments, always gilding and beautifying 

our performance, in order to become well seen,

well referenced, in our journey through this world.

Being careful, we act to reserve at least one page

in the book to be written of the history

of the time we have lived.

We strive, we sacrifice, to set the tone

of a certain and plausible reality, that could impact

on some we choose to love, among those  

in the inevitable transmutations of our daily lives.  

Let us be aware, however, that our world

in truth is not as real as it appears.

We have been, each one of us, acting our fiction,

that we have chosen since we became a being.

As one philosopher once wrote, this world

nothing more has been but our Creator’s dream,    

where He sowed us as His creatures, whom,

in truth, has never ceased to love.

Let us strive, who knows, with a superhuman force,

to rise beyond the dream, arriving, at least

a little closer to one Reality, which we dare to perceive,

but never able to grasp with our own hands.

Published in West Ward Quarterly, Winter 2024

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Published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, March 10 2024

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This poem and all others at this blog, authored by Edilson Afonso Ferreira ©

My poem “Praise” has been published by the Literary Review “WestWard Quarterly”, in its spring 2023 printed issue, page 12. Many thanks to the dear editors Dr. Richard Leonard and Ms. Shirley Anne Leonard.