Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar, 1940
Today is the International Women's Day.
We may quote the poet Vinícius de Moraes and his beautiful poem Receita de Mulher (Recipe of Woman); talk about Marta and her feats; Mia Hamm, the women that are players, fans, workers on football, the referee's mothers - those who like (and those who doesn't) football.
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A poem that tells a lot about what is most complex, most beautiful in Creation, was written by Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and musician. The stanzas below were taken from The Gardener (1913):
Woman
Woman, you are not merely the
handwork of God,
but also of men;
these are ever endowing you with
beauty from your hearts.
Poets are weaving for you a web
with threads of golden imagery;
painters are giving your form ever
new immortality.
The sea gives its pearls,
the mines their gold, the summer gardens
their flowers to deck you,
to cover you, to make you
more precious.
The desire of men's hearts has shed
its glory over your youth.
You are half woman,
half dream.
.
Woman
Woman, you are not merely the
handwork of God,
but also of men;
these are ever endowing you with
beauty from your hearts.
Poets are weaving for you a web
with threads of golden imagery;
painters are giving your form ever
new immortality.
The sea gives its pearls,
the mines their gold, the summer gardens
their flowers to deck you,
to cover you, to make you
more precious.
The desire of men's hearts has shed
its glory over your youth.
You are half woman,
half dream.
.
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