{"id":16849,"date":"2025-04-09T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/?p=16849"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:45:30","slug":"libertem-um-poema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/libertem-um-poema\/","title":{"rendered":"Free a poem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Cam\u00f5es&#039; birth and World Poetry Day, the Dr. Santos Bessa Primary and Secondary School was adorned with a bust of the poet himself, created as part of the Technological Education subject, along with a cage\u2014not for birds, but for poems. Just as Cam\u00f5es opened himself to the world, so too was this cage opened by all those who wished to be touched by the beauty of Cam\u00f5es&#039; poetry and read one of his poems right there, next to the poet&#039;s bust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"5435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/poema.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5435\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gaiola3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5436\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we lack the words to describe Cam\u00f5es&#039; genius, let us entrust that task to someone who has done it so well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CAM\u00d5ES<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I have no verses, boundless cedar,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From the small Portuguese forest!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I don&#039;t even have verses to write, I&#039;m so moved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I stand there gazing at such grandeur from afar.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who can sing to you, after the Song<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What have you given to your country, which does not deserve it?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The sun of inspiration that I light and raise,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It comes down to your feet and it seems to cool down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Calling you a genius is fair, but it&#039;s an understatement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To call you a hero is to grant you only one power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Poet of an empire that was mad,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You were crazy to sing and crazy to fight.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Let this respect, then, serve as a poem.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What I owe you and profess,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The only ship of the unfulfilled dream<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There was no going back!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miguel Torga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Iberian poems<\/em>, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Marta Paiva\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Para comemorar os 500 anos do nascimento de Cam\u00f5es e o Dia Mundial da Poesia, a EB 2,3 Dr. Santos Bessa foi embelezada com um\u00a0 busto do pr\u00f3prio poeta, constru\u00eddo no \u00e2mbito da disciplina de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o Tecnol\u00f3gica, a que se &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,69,75,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aemov","category-ano-letivo-2024-2025","category-eb-2-3-dr-jose-dos-santos-bessa","category-informacoes-gerais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16852,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849\/revisions\/16852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aemontemor.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}