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Tonight I can write the saddest lines
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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, and 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 the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the 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 voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my sould 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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Patricia Murphy
(6/28/2009 8:14:00 AM) |
This has been a favorite for a long while..I would also ask that the words be correct. Anoters She will be anothers...Her Voice
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Hannah Hampson
(11/2/2008 11:34:00 AM) |
I love this poem, and reading it's a very inspiring poem to me. Could I just ask that whoever put it up is careful with their typing, 'soul' is spelt 'sould'. I know it's picky, but please it's something I would really appreciate. Cheers.
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Mimzy Sue
(10/9/2008 12:55:00 AM) |
'I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long', this is a very sad and touching poem i've ever read for a very very long time, it'l be in my fav. poem list,10+++++
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Georgia Van Raalte
(9/9/2008 1:55:00 PM) |
these lines make me weep
there is truly nothing more perfect than the poetry of pablo nerudo
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Thuraya Hamad
(2/4/2008 3:32:00 PM) |
' I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her'
you couldn't possibly be more beautiful Pablo
it's heartbreaking indeed to feel again the intensity of loss
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Fabian Montes
(1/27/2008 2:12:00 AM) |
Maestro Neruda hablas del corazon, Tonight I am those saddest lines you write, as my wife is slowly divorcing me today........... O how it hurts.............. O how it hurts............. You speak through your poetry to us forever and ever gracias.. Maestro
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Wesley Gibbings
(12/22/2007 9:55:00 PM) |
Neruda is, by far, the greatest poet of the 20th Century. 'Tonight... ' is one of his most beautiful poems.
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Kentucky Refugee
(12/16/2007 12:23:00 PM) |
Neruda has masterfully evoked the bone chilling longing of an absent deep love. The ache that lies somewhere between the shoulder blades and the xyphoid process is the physical manifestation of a hole in the soul. The ambivalence of moving along a path that does not include the beloved, for whatever reason, would take paragraphs of prose, but is perfectly drawn in this poem. A 10!
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Drishti Magoo
(9/29/2007 4:38:00 AM) |
mercy!
no wonder...
Love always begins well, but ends in 'well'
(i know my words! ;) ]
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