Carmina Burana - Carl Orf

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Latin expression that designates a poetic collection of medieval anonymous texts, written in Latin and ancient German, in the first half of the century XIII. German texts are represented, but also, in less proportion, English and French. The carmina burana, “ canticles of Beuron ”, name of the Baviera Benedictine abbey, where this collection was, will have been written by goliardos or anonymous clerics, who were opposed to the ecclesiastical law in force. The poetries in the collection comment on satirical and burlesque subjects, always having under sight the customs and the religious life, privileging an ideal of life , agitating the karpe diem, where sex, alcohol is mixed, etc. In 1937, the German composer Carl Orff it was inspired in these texts for the known opera with the same title.

GOLIARDOS

Medieval literature written by clerics or Bohemian students, who were opting for a disorderly, licentious and stuffed life of reposes. Such revellers were in England, France and Germany, where this type of marginal literature was produced. The name they were known is due to the devotion to a bishop Golias, of whom they were calling themselves followers. They were celebrated goliardos like Huoh Primas of Orleans, Pierre de Blois, Gautier de Châtillon and Phillipe the Chancellor. The favorite subject of his compositions is love, in special love that does not respect social conventions nor any established moral, and the whole sort of sensual pleasures. His couples were not recognizing them like truthful poets and, since it seems obvious, were enjoying little fame between the troubadours of the court and the orthodox clerics. Almost all his compositions are hymns to the free sexual expression or to the ideological, religious and moral tyranny of the Church, without forgetting the papal power.Gradually, the clerical privileges of the goliardos have being withdrawn, up to be losing including the designation itself of goliardos, which comes to happen in the XIV century, when the term is getting confused, then, with near designations like buffoon, minstrel or segrel. The most celebrated compilation of the canticles goliardos is the Carmina Burana, texts written in the XIII century , in Bavária, translated by John Addington Symonds with the title Wine, Women, and Song (1884).

The Thinker

Rose and Silver

Rose and silver

Sulked in a corner of the wall,
supporting that clouds were dark and heavy
they were falling down from sky.
She was lovely, half silver, half color rose,
anxious for the winds
and ready for life.
But, the pleasant sun was supporting a cold war against storms
and she remained closed in herself and for the world,
in a sadness that was doing pity.
The moon arrived, bringing cheerful laminated and when they were colored,
nestled in the extremities of a parasol,
making her still more beautiful.
She whirled around, whirled around and laughed,
appreciating the movement colors.
And for the hands of the brown girl,
gained the avenue and danced for the stars,
in it rises and goes down deliriously and rhythmically.
Drunk of dawned glories,
tired and forgotten
in an desertion.
The rain fell, then, blotting shades,
dripped discolored in the streets.
Street-sweepers came and gathered the party remains.
The day could still catch sight
worried movements, silver and color of rose,
shaking slope lower,
beside a last sob of a bottle of beer.

HSS

Tired Joy

Tired joy


Today I do not want to talk about pain
not even love
I do not want thoughts
nor words
silence only
of this peace that invades me
the laziness only
of this expected rest.
Today I do not want to walk
run or even think!
My movements are lethargic
my heart is dragged, slowly.
It is not a sadness
it is not a longing.
It is only a tired joy
needing a snooze.

HSS

Way of Hope

Way of Hope

In the symmetry of hope
my boat goes round the space
where the scarce light
attracts cold time.
My dream is lit,
I alienate life's vitality
and it drives me without stratagems
from your arms/into your arms.
My pain is diluted
and, while your fingers slide
through my hair
one more infinite star is reborn.



HSS

Whales

Graceful and magnificent, humpback whales inspire awe in young and old alike. These marine mammals travel great distances to take advantage of the best breeding grounds and feeding spots. North Pacific humpbacks, for example, mate and give birth in Hawaii and then travel to Alaska each summer to feed.These gentle giants are famous for their singing abilities -- belting out seductive ballads to attract mates or to challenge other would-be suitors. But they also have other talents. Their unique hunting skill, called bubblenet feeding, involves a group of humpbacks working together to capture schools of herring. Each whale has a particular role in the process: One whale swims in a circle while blowing bubbles under a school of herring. When the bubbles rise, the school of herring can not escape and form into a tight ball in the center. Other whales vocalize -- grunting or screaming -- to scare the herring to the surface. The whales then rise with their mouths wide open to capture large amounts of fish. Trek across the oceans with these astounding creatures and discover more revealing details about their wonder-filled, watery ways.

Imperfection

Imperfection

Passion
Perfection
Seduction
Confusion
Decision
Treason
Irritation
Separation
Pardon?
No...
Haste!

HSSoares

Tribute to Timor Lorosae

I was born in Timor Lorosae in 1962 when Timor was a portuguese colony.
This is my little tribute to the land that is always in my heart and blood.

The history of Timor is excessively known.This video shows what went on after the descolonization of the territories dominated by Portugal with the revolution of April 25, 1974: the violent repression on the Timorese. From the referendum in which the Timorese manifested in a great scail on behalf of the independence (August 30, 1999) the territory is free and calls Timor Loro Sae - Timor the Nascent Sun. But not unless many tears had been spilled.

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My first day here. May i Welcome myself...

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