Teresa d’Arenys

Teresa d'Arenys

Poet and cultural activist.

This picture belongs to Album Lived portraits

Maria Teresa Bertran gently offered the following unpublished poem to accompany her portrait (in catalan):

NEIGE D’ANTAN (divagació en un cementiri marí)
A Montserrat Gras Riera, que ha partit en ser besàvia

Una naixença?
Vida que empeny la vida,
vida que arriba
i amb brisa imperceptible
mena la nostra barca

devers el trànsit.
En un tombant de lluna
coincidències
entre la llum i l’ombra
semblen resoldre opòsits…

Una pregària?
Provar de retrobar-te
per les segures,
intemporals cruïlles
on la vida és impresa.

I de cop sobte
la mar, tardors i pluges
que enamoraven
et rescaten del somni
del buit, et recuperen.

Però, les maneres!
Com trobem a faltar les
d’aquelles dames
que Villon evocava…
I n’eres una, d’elles!

maig 2015

Jordi Pons Ribot

Last year exhibition “Retrats viscuts” had a great success in Arenys de Mar. As a result, a new edition is ready.

“Retrats viscuts” or “Lived portraits” was a collection of portraits of people from Arenys de Mar. All of them were older than 60 years and have had a significant public live in the village. This year 35 new portraits will complete the collection.

My contribution to the exhibition are the portraits of Teresa d’Arenys, poet, and Jordi Pons, theatre director. I really enjoyed to work with them.

Jordi Pons Ribot

Theater director.

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