Teresinka Pereira: Brazilian-American poet, President of the International Writers and Artists Association (IWA), President of the International Congress of the Society of Latin Culture.She received from the Knights of Malta Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem the hereditary title of “Dame of Grace”, signed by the Grand Prior S.O.S.J. Dom K. Vella Haber(Malta, January 8, 1997). January 1999 she was appointed Senator of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace.
Dr. Teresinka Pereira received, in 1985, the noble title of Dame of Maggistral Grace from Dom Waldemar Baroni Santos, Prince of Brazil,for her literary merits. Teresinka received a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of New Mexico, USA, and in 1997 received the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the University Simon Bolivar, in Colombia. In 1972 she received the National Prize for Theater in Brazil;in 1977 she was nominated Poet of the Year by the Canadian Society of Poets, and in 1992 was nominated Personality of the Year by the Brazilian Writers Union. She was awarded a golden “Laurel Wreath” as “Laureate Woman of Letters” from the United Poets Laureate International (UPLI). In 1994 she was the winner of the Su-Se Ru International Literary Magazine Company Prize in Korea, and in Greece,she was the winner of the Prize City of Athens. Also in 1994 was elected Director of International Affairs of the Society of Latin Culture. Since 1989 she is a member of the North American Academy of Spanish Language, correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy.
May the irascible supremacists
recognize the mud
in which they drown themselves
with their incompetence.
May the pseudo-democrats
notice that heaven flames up
with their hypocrite fights.
May the cowards look around
the tombs and see
the prints of their fingers
that without pulling the trigger
have killed so many human beings
in useless wars caused by their
ambition and unlimited greed.
The wish for peace could have
taken shelter in all of their conflicts,
if we could ever ask the irascible,
the hypocrites, the cowards:
What is your dream?
Dear friends and brothers,
Christians, Jewish, Buddhists,
Lamanists, Monists, Mormons,
Quakers, Taoists, Islamic,
people of Voodoo, Atheists,
and the ones who adore Tupã*!
I love you as my brothers
and sisters, does not matter
your nationality or religion,
if you are honest
and respect the thoughts,
sentiments and creed
of the other people,
giving them freedom
to be and to live as they wish.
Our humanity is already
developing to the point
of being tolerant and ecumenical
and we can as an individual
go ahead and embrace
freedom to all.
Globalization must start
with love, just as the
beginning of life.
Only respect and love
among all can bring peace!
Let us love all people without
prejudice of race and religion.
I am atheist, but in solidarity
I am also Christian, Jewish,
Buddhist, Quaker, Taoist,
Islamic, and I am with
the people who profess the
Voodoo and the Indians
who adore Tupã.
* Tupã is the God Sun,
of Brazilian Indians.
Springtime blooms our
hope for eternal life.
It is the treasure
of renascence
always chased
by our minds.
It is not a miracle,
it is knowledge which slowly
takes us to the horizon
in which scientists and
poets in the beacon of love
raise our desires of saving
with our lives, the existence
of the Planet for our
descendants who will inhabit it,
with the ones who will arrive
after them to this minimum
Universe, full of brilliant
dawns coming back day after day.
Sadness is a simple
weakness, is distress
and failure, almost fear.
However it may offer
an opportunity
to look for courage,
to discover a new breath
and an optimistic direction.
It is urgent to get out
of yourself and to invest
efforts in helping
someone who may be
suffering the same thing.
Sadness is contagious,
but so is the courage.
A star exploded
luminous and ardent
and fell on Earth.
Each atom of it
was injected into
the human being.
We came from the sky
and we are metal lightning
remaining on Earth
which we learned to transform.
Some day we will explode again
and will return to the Universe
from where we came.
