# Remembering Adília

> This is a tribute to the Portuguese poet Adília Lopes.

- URL: https://workingbruno.com/notes/20250103-remembering-adilia/
- Published: 2025-01-03
- Tags: art, reading

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At the end of 2024, Maria José da Silva Viana Fidalgo de Oliveira, better known by the pseudonym Adília Lopes, one of the most unique voices in Portuguese poetry, disappeared from the world of the living. I became a fan of her seemingly simple poetry, in which she wonderfully played with words from the very first verses. Adília died at the age of 64, but I hope her words will be a way for her memory to live on. The world needs Adilia Lopes.

_minha avó dizia_  
_quando matava_  
_uma pulga_  
_já ganhei o dia_  
_eu quando escrevo_  
_um poema bom_  
_digo como a minha avó_  
_já ganhei o dia_<br/>

_Não gosto de matar_