Topic: Pablo Neruda

[dayzee]

Walking around

It so happens I am sick of being a man.
And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie
houses
dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt
steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes.

The smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse
sobs.
The only thing I want is to lie still like stones or wool.
The only thing I want is to see no more stores, no gardens,
no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators.

It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow.
It so happens I am sick of being a man.

Still it would be marvelous
to terrify a law clerk with a cut lily,
or kill a nun with a blow on the ear.
It would be great
to go through the streets with a green knife
letting out yells until I died of the cold.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
going on down, into the moist guts of the earth,
taking in and thinking, eating every day.

I don't want so much misery.
I don't want to go on as a root and a tomb,
alone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses,
half frozen, dying of grief.

That's why Monday, when it sees me coming
with my convict face, blazes up like gasoline,
and it howls on its way like a wounded wheel,
and leaves tracks full of warm blood leading toward the
night.

And it pushes me into certain corners, into some moist
houses,
into hospitals where the bones fly out the window,
into shoeshops that smell like vinegar,
and certain streets hideous as cracks in the skin.

There are sulphur-colored birds, and hideous intestines
hanging over the doors of houses that I hate,
and there are false teeth forgotten in a coffeepot,
there are mirrors
that ought to have wept from shame and terror,
there are umbrellas everywhere, and venoms, and umbilical
cords.
     
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling.

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[dayzee]

Pot sa scriu versurile cele mai triste acum

Pot sa scriu versurile cele mai triste acum.
Sa scriu de pilda :”noaptea-i instelata
Si tremura sub gheata, in departare, astrii
Vantul noptii se roteste prin ceruri si canta”.
Pot sa scriu versurile cele mai triste in noaptea asta.
Da, am iubit-o si, uneori, si ea m-a iubit.
In nopti precum aceasta, am avut-o in bratele mele
Si, sub cerul fara margini, am sarutat-o de atatea ori.
Ea m-a iubit si, uneori si eu am iubit-o ;
Cum sa nu fi iubit nemiscarea marilor sai ochi.
S-ascult imensa noapte, mai imensa fara ea.
Si versul cade-n suflet ca roua peste iarba.
Ce importanta are ca dragostea mea n-o mai poate pastra ?
Noaptea e plina de stele si eu sunt fara ea.
Aceasta-i tot. In departare cineva canta. In departare.
Cu aceasta pierdere sufletul meu nu se poate impaca.
Ca si cand ar dori s-o apropie, ochii mei o cauta.
Inima mea o cauta, si ea nu e cu mine.
Aceasta noapte leagana aceiasi arbori,
Numai noi, cei de atunci, nu mai suntem aceiasi.
N-o mai iubesc, e adevarat,
Dar cat am iubit-o !...

Tonight I can write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and 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 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 starry 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 tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
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. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite 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 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.

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[dayzee]

Adonic Angela

today I stretched out next to a pure young woman
as if at the shore of a white ocean,
as if at the center of a burning star
of slow space.


from her lengthily green gaze
the light fell like dry water,
in transparant and deep circles
of fresh force.


her bosom like a two flamed fire
burned raised in two regions,
and in a double river reached
her large, clear feet.


a climate of gold scarcely ripened
the diurnal length of her body
filling it with extended fruit
sand hidden fire.

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[dayzee]

If You Forget Me
     
I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

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Integrations

After everything,
I will love you
As if it were always before
As if, after so much waiting,
Not seeing you
And you not coming,
You were breathing close to me forever.


Close to me with your habits,
With your colour and your guitar
Just as countries unite
In school room lectures,
And two regions become blurred
And there is a river near a river
And two volcanoes grow together.


Close to you is close to me
And your absence is far from everything
And the moon is the colour of clay
In the night of quaking earth
When, in terror of the earth,
All the roots join together
And silence is heard ringing
With the music of fright


Fear is also a street
And among its trembling stones
Tenderness somehow is able
To march with four feet
And four lips


Since without leaving the present
That is a fragile thing
We touch the sand of yesterday
And in the sea
Love reveals a repeated fury

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      And Now You´re Mine

      And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
      Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.
      The night turns on its invisible wheels,
      And you are pure beside me as a sleeping ember.

      No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
      We will go together, over the waters of time.
      No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
      Only you, ever green, ever sun, ever moon.

      Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
      And let their soft drifting signs drop away;
      Your eyes closed like two gray wings, and I move
      After, following the folding water you carry, that carries
      Me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
      Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.

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Drunk as drunk

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.