Poetry of Gonzalinho da Costa

IRONY Darkness is luminous: It bends as light. Day is over: It rises with night. A clock is a statue; A desert, a lake. ...

SILENCE I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.— Chaim ...

SILENCE I am quieted when you are near and I hear you speak in the mouth of the wind blowing soft incessant rain scorp...

How dark the sky, Bright the water When silver fish Reflect the moon. Originally posted on Abbey of the Arts: Transformative ...

OUR LADY OF THE PHILIPPINES Trappist Abbey When the moon climbs the cloudless sky and stillness pours into valleys pooling waters o...

BATANES I am a traveler In my heart To a place of sky and sea— A sky so pure, Deepest blue, Sea, same color As the sky— ...