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Tonight I Can Write

Sep 05, 2009 10:14

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

by Pablo Neruda (translated by W.S. Merwin)

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.

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lenten_rose September 5 2009, 02:55:45 UTC

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

how irony life could be, when you're there

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.

and sometimes your tongue told lies, your eyes didn't

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.

saddest line, saddest soul

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance ( ... )

lenten_rose September 5 2009, 04:41:09 UTC

Miyako-chan. Yeah, I posted this on my journal because of your fic. Have been quite emo since I read your fic [boohoohoo me!]. Seriously, the poem means personally a lot to me so I was kinda' dumbstruck when I read your fic and you used THE line.

For that I love you and I made you my friend.

@};--- And a rose for you...

♥♥♥
Ashi

Darn! ashi_ga_demasu September 5 2009, 04:42:24 UTC

Darn! Forgot to log in. Kinda' ruined the emo comment LOL!

Ashi

lenten_rose September 5 2009, 04:57:58 UTC

his every word killed me in a way I couldn't explain. maybe this poem, indeed, means personally to me either ♥

Ashi honey ♥ owh, rose *_____* and yeah, let's be friends!

*hugs* LOL.

sheenalinh September 7 2009, 00:04:28 UTC

I havent read anything literature like if it's not translated, but this one is really lovely. I love most is the line: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
which is quoted in Miya chan fic ♥