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Leonardo Valverde

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Rio de Janeiro, BR | Linguist | Philologist | Poet
“Sinfonia de pedras”, Editora Libertinagem (2025).

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Anunciamos a pré-venda de "Sinfonia de pedras", livro de poemas de Leonardo Valverde ( @valverde.leo ) Em nosso site é possível ler dois poemas do livro.

Estaremos em processo de encomenda pelo próximo mês (até 06/02), nesse período o livro poderá ser adquirido com 10% de desconto.

Como forma de ampliar o público leitor, a Libertinagem lança nova campanha de pré-impressão: se atingirmos a meta de 100 exemplares adquiridos ao longo dessas semanas, todos os leitores receberão o livro em dobro, para presentear alguém ❤🫂

Ainda, os apoiadores da pré-venda terão seus nomes registrados nos Agradecimentos do livro impresso.

IMPORTANTE: O livro só será impresso após o término da pré-venda. Reforçamos a importância de adquirir o livro na pré-venda, como forma de viabilizar a sua impressão, feita por uma microeditora, como a Libertinagem. Fazendo isso, você valoriza o trabalho especial de autor e equipe editorial e apoia o esforço de quem segue trabalhando com e pelos livros num tempo de altos preços gráficos. by @valverde.leo

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The last sonnet from ‘Longitudinal Waves’, a poetic project with 79 sonnets, now already revised and ready to get some publisher – we hope.

#poetry #sonnet taken in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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5 months ago

#Resenha de “Sinfonia de Pedras”, livro de poemas de @valverde.leo , por Jessé de Almeida Primo by @valverde.leo

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9 months ago

The year starting with the ocean… taken in Armação Dos Búzios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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The organisation of my poetry project “Longitudinal Waves” here. The last sequence; I deleted most of the sonnets leaving only some samples. The project is based on the Śivasūtra of Vasugupta (9th CE), it has 79 sonnets following the content-plot of each 79 sūtra(s), I created a poetic verse based on western and eastern traditions, bringing the Sanskrit accent to modern English verse. Art is form above all else. For me – and also for Ezra Pound – poetry has much to do with painting and music than with literature — I need also to say that for me it has to do with mathematics, or better, a mathematical art.

#poetry #symbolicpoetry #mathematicalart taken in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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10 months ago

The twentieth sixth sonnet per sūtra (from third chapter), based on the Śivasūtra of Vasugupta (9th CE), with 79 sonnets, now only 20 left to be written.

शिवतुल्यो जायते ॥२६॥ [3.26]

From Nature comes your nature, you create a goddess
to dance in the fresh dew of the world – immodest –
until the dew falls into a river, the river flows into a lagoon,
a ritual of dancers becoming one under a crescent moon,
stepping on the hard-packed earth, below the sky,
where micro and macro are merely a sidereal outcry
for you, Soul, to experience the zodiacal axial precession
and change the gravity of astronomical nutation
from this Earth where you dance in gyroscopic stiffness;
preserve the astrological nature of your consciousness,
deify your feet on the ground, your eyes like an altar,
on this planet where you live seeing only a quarter.

L.V.

PS: a poetry project-book called “Longitudinal Waves”. taken in Armação Dos Búzios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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a year ago

November, just started… taken in Armação Dos Búzios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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. . . taken in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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The fifteenth sonnet (from third chapter) per sūtra, based on the Śivasūtra of Vasugupta (IX CE), with 79 sonnets, each one following the plot of each sūtra.

विसर्गस्वाभाव्यादबहिः स्थितेस्तत्स्थितिः ॥१५॥ [3.15]

Just realise that nothing is external,
entities do not exist independently outside,
consciousness emission slowly becoming nature
for your body to survive on love – maternal –
as you pass through the world alone without a guide,
you rest – little pond – on the plane of eternity,
your life in this dry world surrounded by nomenclature
is called by that which can only be in sempiternity
and your achievement flows into the great Lake,
this deep and vast water not counting on prelature;
attention, your water only flows when you’re awake
and awakening is still part of what is phenomenal.

L.V.

PS: painting: “Niterói”, Nicolau Facchinetti, 1889; (the photo took by me at same place). #poetry taken in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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a year ago

Na Especiaria @especiariabr hoje, uma celebração de “Kind of blue”, de Miles Davis, num poema de autoria de Leonardo Valverde @valverde.leo. Integra o livro "Sinfonia de pedras" (Libertinagem, 2025)

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Siga @especiariabr e leia na íntegra pelo link na bio 🌿 by @valverde.leo

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The thirteenth sonnet (from third chapter) per sūtra, based on the Śivasūtra of Vasugupta (IX CE), with 79 sonnets.

सिद्धः स्वतन्त्रभावः ॥१३॥ [3.13]

Your alchemy transforms captivity into Freedom,
everything you touch turns into liquid space,
the stars in your sky fall without tears,
the moon in silver light cries without despair,
reflected in the great Lake, this humid kingdom,
where there is no king, castles are waves of grace
navigating concentrically through wet galaxies,
while you swim meditating to escape the fallacies
to one day wake up and see what it’s like being aware,
after that wait sitting on the damp stairs
made by sound lines reverberating in moist ears
to embrace a world of waters that has no Chiefdom.

L.V.

PS: painting: “Two Women Running on the Beach”, Picasso, 1922. The first sonnet I wrote in Brazil after 12 years living abroad. #poetry taken in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by @valverde.leo

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The twelfth sonnet (from third chapter) per sūtra, based on the Śivasūtra of Vasugupta (IX CE), with 79 sonnets. Now with 34 sūtras left, 45 already written.

धीवशात् सत्तवसिद्धिः ॥१२॥ [3.12]

In the alchemy of matter your intellect clears the lead
turning dense metal into bright stars,
grinds the gold until its dust becomes a person
healing metaphysical pains without leaving scars,
while your body living in time makes you bleed,
until you know who you are and find your best version,
turning gold into dew, moistening your intellect,
living in this world, in this drop, which can affect
your way of thinking, your eyes, your volatile mind,
if you don’t meditate until your tears become the Lake
or get lost in the river with waters already behind;
always remember – little soul – you’re alchemical.

L.V.

PS: painting: “Alchemy”, Jackson Pollock, 1947.

PS: this is the last poem I wrote here in Prague, 12 to mark the twelve years I’ve lived in Prague, Czech Republic. taken in Praha Žižkov by @valverde.leo

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