Biography.
Paula Valéria Andrade é poeta, escritora, artista visual, diretora de arte e professora universitária. Ela recebeu prêmios em Portugal, Itália, EUA, Alemanha e no Brasil: Jabuti, UBE e APCA.
Chronometer
The elevator makes you wait so long
cause life gives you no time
The supermarket's long line
The crowned bus
The sidewalk is jammed with people back and forward cause life gives you no time
The sluggish traffic
and it's damn hot, yeah it's about time...
The subway is overcrowded
The waiting of the laboratory blood count The junk canned food that you eat
cause life gives you no time
The prayer at the sanctuary
The car wash washes many cars simultaneously Medicine ads all over the billboards at the buildings Spoken portraits of life's 1%
cause life gives you no time
Everything is meant to be unfolding
walk fast, get safe
avoid run over accidents
Don't smoke, breath...
don't even think about gaining weight
Never drink enough to get drunk
or to cry,
it's a fast pace
cause life gives you no time
Even your thoughts
flow off
through the wind
depending of the consensus sense
Anonymous observatory:
(digital iris)
electronic focus
zoom in and out
(Because life gives you no time)
Masticate to duplicate
as a doubleminded state
with the savor of the time
that life doesn't give you.
cause life gives you no time
The supermarket's long line
The crowned bus
The sidewalk is jammed with people back and forward cause life gives you no time
The sluggish traffic
and it's damn hot, yeah it's about time...
The subway is overcrowded
The waiting of the laboratory blood count The junk canned food that you eat
cause life gives you no time
The prayer at the sanctuary
The car wash washes many cars simultaneously Medicine ads all over the billboards at the buildings Spoken portraits of life's 1%
cause life gives you no time
Everything is meant to be unfolding
walk fast, get safe
avoid run over accidents
Don't smoke, breath...
don't even think about gaining weight
Never drink enough to get drunk
or to cry,
it's a fast pace
cause life gives you no time
Even your thoughts
flow off
through the wind
depending of the consensus sense
Anonymous observatory:
(digital iris)
electronic focus
zoom in and out
(Because life gives you no time)
Masticate to duplicate
as a doubleminded state
with the savor of the time
that life doesn't give you.
Paula Valeria Andrade - From the book “Iris Digital”, 2005
Escritura Publishers – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Early Evening
I remember clearlyEach little pace
Step –by – step
Beside you in San Francisco
Walking by….
Looking by
passing by….
Union Square, Filmore, Van Ness
Columbus
Holding your hands
Shaking our arms
Laughing and kissing with a lot of tease ness
When suddenly,
Stopping by
Flowers
- powers
of the colors and scents
at the corner of your heart –
you gave me beauty;
pulsing inside my body and mind,
as my fractal number.
California Slice
The summer comes
tanning skins
burning ideas
melting hearts
Colorful magical
feelings
of hot shades
and warm
sensations
painting the sky
as a pallete
of multiplied
slices of life.
tanning skins
burning ideas
melting hearts
Colorful magical
feelings
of hot shades
and warm
sensations
painting the sky
as a pallete
of multiplied
slices of life.
Farewell
Come to say
goodbye
as when
you walked
indoor the first time
and without knocking
came smilling
to say
Hi, you're
my sweetie pie
then left
my heart
as a used rug
on the floor.
