14 short poems about life (with comments)

In poetry I usually fear the power to act as people, tracing reflections on life and the mysteries of existence.

Assim, we selected 14 inspiring short poems with comments to make you reflect.

1. Give happiness - Mario Quintana

How many times to people, looking for me da ventura,
Proceed as is or unhappy avozinho:
Em vão, everywhere, oculos procures
Tendo-os na ponta do nose!

Mario Quintana lembra us nesse short poem to importance of being attentive to happiness. Many times we are happy, but the distractions of life do not make us energize and value the good things.

2. Follow or your destiny - Fernando Pessoa (Ricardo Reis)

Follow or your destiny,
water your plants,
Love your roses.
Or the rest is in the shade
Of alheias trees.

This is an excerpt from a poem by Fernando Pessoa under the heteronym of Ricardo Reis. Here, he proposes us to live our own lives without worrying about the judgments that other people might make about us.

Follow our "destiny", feed our projects people and love us above two others, esse é o conselho do poeta.

3. Florbela Espanca

If we penetrated the meaning of life, we would be less miserable.

Florbela Espanca was a Portuguese poet from the first half of the 20th century who left an exciting and passionate legacy.

Nessa citação, she affirms that our inner misery, our seja, our anguish and solidarity, could be overcome if we were willing to merge with the events, experiencing life more intensely e looking to find a purpose.

4. I'm back - Ana Cristina César

I am behind the entire dispossession
gives simplicity more erma
the most recently born word
do interior more stripped
the simplest ermo
do nascimento a mais da palavra.

Nesse small poem, Ana Cristina César exhibits her wish of face life with greater simplicity, trying to find a primordial meaning, the essence of life. Nessa searches, she also wants to discover a more unique way to make poetry.

5. Das utopias - Mario Quintana

If things are ineffective... pray!
There is no reason not to want them...
How sad are you roads, I don't know
A distant presence of the stars!

The word utopia is related to a dream, to fantasy, to imagination. Normally it is used to disbelieve or wish to live in a better society, more humane and supportive, without miseries and exploration.

Mario Quintana poetically exhibits the importance of keep alive the transformation vontade, comparing utopia as the brilho das estrelas, that guide us and encourage us.

6. Running gives life - Guimarães Rosa

Or running gives life embrulha everything.
A life is assim: esquenta e esfria,
open and daí afrouxa,
sossega e depois restless.
Or that she wants to give people courage...

This is not a poem, but a stretch of the incredible book O grande sertão: Paths, from Guimarães Rosa. Here the writer approaches with lyricism as nuances and contradictions of life.

He traces to us in simple words the restlessness of existence and affirms that he himself needs determination, strength and bravery to face the challenges that arise.

7. Happiness - Clarice Lispector

A felize appears for those who choram.
For those who are machucam.
For those who seek me and always tempt.

Nesse little poetic text, Clarice Lispector presents happiness as a search, as a real possibility, but only for those who dare and propose to experience as dors and prazeres intensely.

8. Reflection - Pablo Neruda

if you were loved
how much more loved
More I correspond to love.
if you were esquecido
I have to forget too
Pois o amor é feito espelho: Tem que ter reflexo.

Or love many times can trace anguish and feelings of impotence when not reciprocated. Assim, Neruda or compares to a mirror, affirming to need for reciprocity.

The poet warns us about the importance of percebermos when it is necessary to stop loving and continue in front, with self-love and self-confidence.

9. Incense pit music- Paulo Leminski

isso of wanting to be
exactly here
what a people
go ahead
take us to Germany

The human being lives in search of satisfying his desires, he will perfect himself. It is this characteristic that drives us to always look for something that "completes" us.

Even knowing that it is complete and unattainable, we continue to seek and assim we become more upright, interesting and curious people.

10. Take advantage of life - Rupi Kaur

we are dying
since we chega
and we are afraid of smelling sight
- live intensely.

A young Indian Rupi Kaur writes this beautiful message about life, aiming for the shortness of existence. She made us think about the fact that since we were born we are "morrendo", even if we are in the advanced age.

We shouldn't get too distracted, getting used to the simple things and letting go of take advantage of the day.

11. Paul Leminski

winter
Everything or what I feel
Live
I'm succinct.

Viver é succinto assim como o Leminski's poem. Nele, or writer uses rhyme as a resource and presents life as something simple and brief.

He still compares the cold of winter with his feelings, passing an idea of ​​solidarity and introspection.

12. Fast and Rasteiro - Jackal

Vai ter uma festa
that you vou dance
tie or sapato ask to stop

I stop there
shot or shoe
and dance or rest gives life.

A festa that the poet refers to his own life. Chacal draws a parallel between our day in the world and a celebration, highlighting the importance of his live the days with prazer.

When you get tired, ou seja, when the body asks to stop, the poet will continue dancing himself after death.

13. Poem no meio do caminho - Drummond

I do not want to walk on a stone
Tinha uma pedra no meio do caminho
Tinha a stone
I don't want to walk around a stone.
I never forgot about the event
in the life of minhas retinas so fatigued.
I'll never forget that I'm not on the road
Tinha a stone
Tinha uma pedra no meio do caminho
I don't want to walk around a stone.

This famous poem by Drummond was published in 1928 in Anthropophagy Magazine. At the time, it caused estrangement on the part of two readers, due to repetition. Meanwhile, it was also highly praised and became an icon in the writer's production.

The referred stones are two symbols obstacles we encounter in life. The very structure of the poem exhibits this difficulty in advancing, always tracing challenges like rocks to be climbed and overcome.

14. I don't argue - Paulo Leminski

I do not discuss
as or destination
or what to paint
eu assino

Leminski became familiar with his succinct poems. Esse é um desses small famous texts.

Nele, or writer apresenta sua disposição em aceitar o que a vida tiver to offer. In this way, he stands enthusiastically before life and his unforeseen events.

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