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Conceicao Lima

Traziam poentes e estradas
A sede do horizonte os chamava.

– A quem pertences tu?
Quem são os da tua casa?

Assim estendia nossa avó
A caneca de água ao viajante.


Conceicao Lima

Reproduced by kind permission of the Poetry Translation Centre.

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Translations of this Poem

Travellers

They bore sunsets and roads
Thirst for the horizon called them

– Who do you belong to?
Who are your people?

That’s how our grandmother held out
A mug of water to the traveller

Source: found at Poetry Translation Centre website: http://www.poetrytranslation.org/ literal translation by Stefan Tobler, final translation by The Poetry Translation Workshop Reproduced by kind permission of the Poetry Translation Centre.

About this poem

This poem, representing Sao Tome and Principe, is part of The Written World – our collaboration with BBC radio to broadcast a poem from every single nation competing in London 2012.

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Conceicao Lima

Conceição Lima (also known as Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima) was born in the town of Santana in São Tomé. She started writing poems as a teenager and, in 1979, at the age of nineteen, traveled to Angola...
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