Acacias Poem by Nicanor Parra

Acacias

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Strolling many years ago

Down a street taken over by acacias in bloom

I found out from a friend who knows everything

That you had just gotten married.

I told him that I really

Had nothing to do with it.

I never loved you

— You know that better than I do —

Yet each time the acacias bloom

— Can you believe it? —

I get the very same feeling I had

When they hit me point-blank

With the heartbreaking news

That you had married someone else.


— translated by David Unger

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
hugh kearns 14 October 2019

All that I care to remember is that the acacias were in bloom.

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Elena Sandu 23 August 2013

How painful the beauty of acacias bloom... Sometimes is said that the longest, strongest love is for one that we can't have...By this poem, I think it may be true.

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Jake Deeds 08 December 2011

Very nice! Sounds like a life story only partially told....<

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