"O tempo é senhor e sabedor..."(R.Reis) e não apaga imagens.... olhares... sonhos... sensações e, sobretudo ensinamentos! "Até um dia, Senhor!"



(Lino de Miranda, 1984)

Um poema inédito, em inglês, escrito po Lino de Miranda, em Manaus/AM-Brasil, 16/11/1974. (Acervo pessoal)

No, my friend, I am no more the poet.
When I was, you think nothing, but I was the poet, o my friend.
Now, it is me that nothing you were, my boy,
that nothing half-alive.
But, you know? there is a stranger in my mind,
and I have, just as not mine, the poet I am no more,
a memorial poet, a mechanical one, a stranger, o my God! not me! not me!
But no, my God, no: it is not me no more that poet.
Even, my friend, I don't know who or all myself
is in me some other thing than memory.

L. M. XVI-XI-MCMLXXIV Ex.Am.Man.Br.