what's today?

today is vday. since i need to prove that i’m not vday’s scrooge or grinch, i searched for pablo neruda stuff on the web and found two nice ones to share. i’m not really into poetry (i hardly read poems/sonnets). i consider myself more of a prose, fiction, essay kind of guy. but since today is vday, let me spread the love. boo !!! haha.


XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.


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LXVI

I do not love you - except because I love you;
I go from loving you to not loving you,
from waiting to not waiting for you
my heart moves from the cold into

the fire. I love you only because it's you
I love; I hate you no end, and hating you
bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
is that I do not see you but love you

blindly. Maybe the January light will consume
my heart with its cruel
ray, stealing my key to true

calm. In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood


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what do you think??? vday is pablo neruda time. he is the man of the moment. the chilean nobel prize winner was not only a diplomat and a world class poet, but also a lover of many women - he had three wives and many mistresses... whoah !!! poetry can do wonders...

have a nice day everyone!!! i'll be spending the afternoon at home doing a prisonbreak marathon. bummer.