The Eagle

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Rio de Janeiro, 2006
"Solar Meninos de Luz", Yoga-&-Poetry Class,
Poem by Lucas, Mateus & Alan.
How to offer our voices to Nature? In Ecopoetry, we use Metaphor, that in Poetry means "transport" and, in Ecopoetry, "transplant", which is a little more than transportation: bus transportation plus putting our hands in direct contact with the earth, the earth of language. Therefore, we may transplant our voices to animals, hearing in ourselves what we can freely learn from them...

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I personally did not do anything more than smiling in this poem: Lucas Matheus & Alan were in debt of a homework, and got together to write it in front of me. They inspired themselves in some verses of Popular Rock Brazilian Songs (the first verse for instance), but transplanted all them to the voice of an Eagle, creating, of course, by themselves, the biggest part of the following "tree of words".

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There is no wind
Or desert storm
That could forbid yourself of flying
Gaining strength... it flies away
And flying... Flying it lives its way

There is no wave across the sea
Sailing non-stop

The sea tells me
The sun tells me
The sky tells me

With you I shall live always happily
Wherever we are we shall always be together
Under your inspiration, my reason to strive,
Singing and hunting to survive.