Para ser persuasiva
Para ser persuasiva
a linguagem precisa
fazer as pessoas da audiência
se sentirem grandes.
Depois, quem fala
deve usar
a linguagem
da transparência.
Uma linguagem transparente
até pessoas surdas podem ouvir
e cegas podem ver.
Ser persuasiu
Ser persuasiu
el llenguatge necessita
fer que la gent de l'audiència
se sent bé.
Llavors, qui diu
hauria d'usar
el llenguatge
transparència
Un llenguatge transparent
fins i tot els sords poden escoltar
i els cecs poden veure.
Verbum Caro, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Verbum Caro by T. Wignesan
Glory to the resuscitated Lord
Incarnate cry of the Flesh becoming Verb
The body is not the place of death
Where the soul feels alright despite revulsion
He who holds his nose
While passing his house full of droppings
Whatever be said : My flesh my pigsty
It is he the tomb requiring cleansing
A body all armed comes out of me
From the invincible nakedness
Fomenting peace in the midst of war
He’s of an innocent cast of mind
As virile as the sun
His worth illuminating the earth
The world is set on his head
The man straightens up It is midday
(from Les Jours de la Passion, first published by the Abbaye de la Pierre-qui-Vire by the Editions diu Zodiaque, 1962)
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
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