ANCIENT SCIENCE
Poets recreate the magic words,
the ancient Science
of Mother Nature.
Poets live and die, but their fire
candles never perish.
They are the everlasting emeralds
of creation, the roses
of the universe.
Maria do Sameiro Barroso (Portugal) is a Medical Doctor, a Germanist and a multilingual and awarded poet, translator, essayist and researcher in Portuguese and German Literature, Translations Studies and History of Medicine. She is a Member of Honor of the Association Alia Mundi from Serbia and recipiente of the Award of Literary Translators of Montenegro for Translation from Portuguese :anguage (2022).