<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392312" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lisboa (1983)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lisbon<br>How life runs quickly by<br>The painted flowers fade on the walls<br>Of Avenido de Liberdade<br>The flowers of revolution that were sown in blood<br>Of Africa seized by your ancient rulers<br>And leased to your moneyed class<br>Subleased to your southern farmers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lisbon<br>Burst into bloom after the fallow of centuries<br>Freedom to sing in the streets, to withhold labour<br>But life still does not cease to worsen<br>For your Africans and poor<br>At work on every street without machine tools<br>Laying and repairing each small stone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lisbon<br>You welcomed the crowds at Restadores<br>Massing to support the young officers<br>And to paint the stone where martyrs fell<br>Today there is no scarcity of politics<br>But the same men control, the same women keep clean<br>The sheets, the workers far from home<br>Sweep clean the streets of worn election posters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Lisboa to learn Portuguese<br>I keep a red carnation fresh in water<br>In the window of my boarding room<br>The rain falls gently on the traffic below<br>The flowers that the singers hold are new<br>Those in the hands of practiced leaders<br>Are petals that discolour one by one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392312" data-title="Lisboa (1983) de Frank Bana" data-description="Lisbon How life runs quickly by The painted flowers fade on the walls Of Avenido de Liberdade The flowers of revolution that were sown in blood Of Africa seized by your ancient rulers And leased to your moneyed class Subleased to your southern far..."></div> </div> </div>

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