Fashion, Poetry & Theater

Poetry Inspired in Brazilian’s Folk Feast Boi-Bumbá

I

I am the Face

Of Nature

My Place

Is the North of Brazil

It may be premature

But tell you a story

I will

My cap is fashionable

For I am part

Of a Brazilian Festival

I am art!

II

In the Amazon Forest

I inhabit

Put me at test

You may

I’m as fast

As a rabbit

I do not rest

What do you say?

III

My mission

Is to help

A cowboy

Fight

A Brazilian cow

As you might

Call

Boi Bumbá

Or Bumba-meu-Boi

Hello! Hello!

(Hello in Portuguese is: Oi)

IV

The story is bizarre

I wear an amour for war

A man dispised fights a cow

See the women version

of

my costume right now.

Ana Claudia Bonaccorsi Dutra