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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Afrodellico

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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
-Pablo Neruda
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Afroman
 
How beautiful and painful at the same time. I think most of us can say that we've lost someone that part of us will always love. It's the way we still love them that's the difference. Thank you for this wonderful piece of words, pain, and love combined.
Caress
 
I LOVE Pablo Neruda. It's even better in Spanish, so much more passionate letting it roll off your tongue. This is one of my favorite poems of his. Thanks for sharing it.
 
Afroman,
I was just thinking...I'm sure this is beautiful in Spanish. And I bet there are plenty of Spanish speaking bluelighters...
What do you think of posting the poem in Spanish on this thread? I know I'd enjoy seeing it in it's beautiful original form.
Just a thought.
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Caress
 
ok!! i will post some in spanish!!!!! u'll see!!!
Love is the only law to obey!
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Afroman
 
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