No More Blues
A poem
Long enough
this longing
my heart window is closing
as you redact the memories
of golden afternoons
Impossible to live
with injured strings
of your unravelled regard
light years away
love notes sung
dropped
in puddles haphazardly
Your hard eyes, tearless
and silence indifferent
in airless acceleration
coldly adrift
Burning are the memories
of golden afternoons
Inspired by Chega De Saudade (“Enough Longing” or “No More Blues”) by João Gilberto (written by De Moraes & Jobim). The title track from the 1959 album is considered the first bossa nova album. João Gilberto sings with rousing and beautiful melancholy here and his singing style draws parallele to Chet Baker who was a possible inspiration.
Bossa nova is only one aspect of culture which expresses the complex concept of saudade , a Portuguese-Galician word that is untranslatable. I unravel the meaning in of this elusive concept along with…
