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I hadn't met my true father until the Revolution.
The corners of his mouth became deeper while he lifted his lips and his face was brighter than white. When he carried me outside on his shoulders everyone looked the same.
Later I learned it was an infection spreading beyond the country's borders. They called it change, then.
I never knew a song could free a Nation.
The corners of his mouth became deeper while he lifted his lips and his face was brighter than white. When he carried me outside on his shoulders everyone looked the same.
Later I learned it was an infection spreading beyond the country's borders. They called it change, then.
I never knew a song could free a Nation.
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=nycterent bullied me into NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month). Let's see how this sticks. Last year I only wrote two and they were in Portuguese... 
This is for =nycterent's Prompt #13: [link] - You can read about this April NaPo project (it has prizes, too!) in: [link]
After choosing an historical event (25 of April, 1974 - the day Dictatorship died in Portugal, my country) this prompt required me to use its name (25 de Abril is what we call it in Portuguese, besides "Carnation Revolution") in a word search in dA and use a deviation that I found to serve as a stepping block to write the poem and to write it as the participant.
I've chosen this image: [link] and the participant is the little kid in his father's shoulders, of course.
Why of course?
"Of course", because one of the national symbols for this that is looked as the most important political revolution of our history as a country is - along with the carnations - a photo of a little boy placing a carnation into a gun and this kid remembered me that one.
Trivia (A.K.A. if you are NOT familiar with Portuguese History and want to know more about it please do read the following):
Why the carnations? Because this was a peaceful revolution, with almost no deaths which is odd for a military-coup. In fact, the only deaths in that day were not to blame on the revolutionists but on the PIDE, the political/thought police that was resisting the revolution. Even so, they were few deaths.
As for the song that freed us just by playing in the radio that morning (it was a signal for the revolutionists, that morning - they chose it because of the hidden messages that PIDE couldn't find) it is called "Grândola Vila Morena". It is very beautiful and I cry every time I hear it.
The title I chose is both because of the child in the picture but also because there is a saying in Portuguese, that people who was born in that time, who never had to live with fear of being killed by thinking for themselves, are the "Children of April" (Filhos de Abril). The photo I picked was taken 5 years after the Revolution, so I figure that kid is one of us, too!
You can read more about this revolution that is celebrated every 25 of April in our country, a day we call Freedom Day, in the Internet just by "googling" «Carnation Revolution». If you do it you'll have even more keys to understand it because even after all of this Trivia there is much, MUCH more to explain!
Oh, what the hell.. Just read it in wikipedia, here I give you the link: [link] - It really means a lot to me (which probably explains this wall of text, bigger than the poem itself - sorry about that, btw)!
This is for =nycterent's Prompt #13: [link] - You can read about this April NaPo project (it has prizes, too!) in: [link] After choosing an historical event (25 of April, 1974 - the day Dictatorship died in Portugal, my country) this prompt required me to use its name (25 de Abril is what we call it in Portuguese, besides "Carnation Revolution") in a word search in dA and use a deviation that I found to serve as a stepping block to write the poem and to write it as the participant. I've chosen this image: [link] and the participant is the little kid in his father's shoulders, of course. Why of course?
"Of course", because one of the national symbols for this that is looked as the most important political revolution of our history as a country is - along with the carnations - a photo of a little boy placing a carnation into a gun and this kid remembered me that one.
Trivia (A.K.A. if you are NOT familiar with Portuguese History and want to know more about it please do read the following):
Why the carnations? Because this was a peaceful revolution, with almost no deaths which is odd for a military-coup. In fact, the only deaths in that day were not to blame on the revolutionists but on the PIDE, the political/thought police that was resisting the revolution. Even so, they were few deaths.
As for the song that freed us just by playing in the radio that morning (it was a signal for the revolutionists, that morning - they chose it because of the hidden messages that PIDE couldn't find) it is called "Grândola Vila Morena". It is very beautiful and I cry every time I hear it.
The title I chose is both because of the child in the picture but also because there is a saying in Portuguese, that people who was born in that time, who never had to live with fear of being killed by thinking for themselves, are the "Children of April" (Filhos de Abril). The photo I picked was taken 5 years after the Revolution, so I figure that kid is one of us, too!
You can read more about this revolution that is celebrated every 25 of April in our country, a day we call Freedom Day, in the Internet just by "googling" «Carnation Revolution». If you do it you'll have even more keys to understand it because even after all of this Trivia there is much, MUCH more to explain!
Oh, what the hell.. Just read it in wikipedia, here I give you the link: [link] - It really means a lot to me (which probably explains this wall of text, bigger than the poem itself - sorry about that, btw)!
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