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Nighthawk · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: A Favourite Poem

The Saddest Poem …. Pablo Neruda
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.

One of my favourite poems by Pablo Neruda

Henry Miller · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:

Wow that's awesome. I feel the same way except I never had the girl that I'm upset about.
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scruffy_danny · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:

That is a very interesting poem.

And I know what you mean Henry Miller. (Was Henry Miller that guy who was in love with Anais Nin or something?) (Sorry, I'm just interested.)
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Gem · Moderator Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 24 Location: London

Beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing it with us Nighthawk.

Nighthawk · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

He does have a touch of magic doesn't he?

'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

and

'Love is short, forgetting is so long.'

... so romantic. 'sigh'

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