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Puedo Escribir (tonight I can write)

 

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'I have never felt the convincing waves
Crashing over the rocks of my heart'

Or, 'this night I have watched a thousand suns dying,
Extinguished from existence in the obsidian sky'

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Only in loving her does the puzzle seem complete.

For only after being in the midst of chaos
Is it possible to comprehend the nature of peace.

Our souls have danced together underneath a waxing moon
Though she slept in a distant place sharing the same sky

And I have understood her with just one look
And she has loved me a centuries worth in a heartbeat.

This love and understanding; it is all of existence now.
The sky is nothing but a cord that connects us, a song she sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. So simply.
Without fear of losing my soul to the underworld.

Her song. It is her song that will keep me,
Keep me willingly caught in her cage,

Keep me from writing the saddest lines
Yet ever having to feel their pain again.

Though these be some of the first words
I write for her…
Nothing is more certain within my soul

◄ Online Love (for Jen Lewis)

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Nash

Sun 23rd May 2010 13:41

Thanks Cate - check out Every Day You Play!

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Cate Greenlees

Sun 23rd May 2010 08:42

This is quite beautiful Nash. I shall go and research the poet you recommend... he must be worthwhile if hes inspired this piece of writing!
Cate cc

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Nash

Fri 21st May 2010 13:28

Thanks again Chris, though Pablo is really the architect. I just took his and turned it around to being about the beginning of love rather than the end. I recommend hunting down the original version if you don't know it...it's stunning. Nash

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Chris Dawson

Fri 21st May 2010 13:16

Lovely.
Cx

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Nash

Fri 21st May 2010 10:28

Definitely try Neruda's twenty love poems - they are simply breathtaking.

I need to get myself kitted out with recording facilities this weekend, I think!

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Isobel

Fri 21st May 2010 08:42

Don't know the poet but I love the sounds and I like to read the occasional love poem. You should try recording it.

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Nash

Thu 20th May 2010 20:19

Another nod (ok, ok it's a total rip off!) to the greatest poet that ever lived - Pablo Neruda

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