Tell Me About Life

Lessons in Portuguese

Via Internet, I traveled through the castles and ruins of Portugal. There were grapevines, green hills and valleys, and medieval streets, but it was the story of the fortresses that caught my mind.

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Lessons in Portuguese

Fortress blocked in stone,

Once mighty as its stern knight,

Now pale as whalebone.


Green-coned turrets rise

Keepsakes of ancient mistakes

In soldiers’ closed eyes.


Such medieval fame

Should ban all such fate in man,

But war’s still the same.

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Writer's Cramp prompt:"Brazilian Haiku" brought to Brazil by Guilherme de Almeida. The Brazilian haiku has the following rhyme scheme.


- - - - X
- O - - - - O
- - - - X


Where X rhymes with X and O rhymes with O.

(Information by Bianca)