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Love!

 
 
sakhi
 
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Reply Thu 6 Oct, 2005 10:20 pm
Lovely poems, Angelique. Thanks.

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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.

Pablo Neruda
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Thu 6 Oct, 2005 11:41 pm
That is beautiful. Do you have the spanish version? What is the tittle to the poem?

Thanks
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sakhi
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 12:08 am
No I'm afraid I dont have the Spanish version.

I dont know the title ..it is one of his love sonnets - from "Cien Sonetos de Amor (100 Love Sonnets)"

Here is another one by Neruda:

Your Feet

When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

- Pablo Neruda
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 12:18 am
Thanks

Love those men with foot fetishes.*giggles*
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sakhi
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 12:19 am
Very Happy Very Happy
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 12:24 am
Chinmayee, do you know the numbers to the sonnets? I found some of his love poems in spanish, and they have numbers.
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sakhi
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 12:50 am
oh yes..this peom has a number too..it's XVII. I'm referring to the poem "I do not love you..". The "Your Feet" poem does not have a number....
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 01:19 am
Pablo Neruda
Tus pies

Cuando no puedo mirar tu cara
miro tus pies.
Tus pies de hueso arqueado,
tus pequen~os pies duros.
Yo se' que to sostienen,
y que tu dulce peso
sobre ellos se levanta.
Tu cintura y tus pechos,
la duplicada pu'rpura
de tus pezones,
la caja de tus ojos
que recie'n han volado,
tu ancha boca de fruta,
tu cabellera roja,
pequen~a torre mi'a.
Pero no amo tus pies
sino porque anduvieron
sobre la tierra y sobre
el viento y sobre el agua,
hasta que me encontraron.

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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 01:35 am
Soneto XVII
Pablo Neruda


No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal,topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.


Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva
dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores,
y gracias a tu amor vive oscuro en mi cuerpo
el apretado aroma que ascendió de la tierra.


Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,


sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres,
tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,
tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.

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Je ne t'aime pas comme rose de sel, ni topaze
Ni comme flèche d'oeillets propageant le feu:
Je t'aime comme l'on aime certaines choses obscures,
De façon secrète, entre l'ombre et l'âme.


Je t'aime comme la plante qui ne fleurit pas
Et porte en soi, cachée, la lumière de ces fleurs,
Et grâce à ton amour dans mon corps vit l'arôme
Obscur et concentré montant de la terre.


Je t'aime sans savoir comment, ni quand, ni d'où,
Je t'aime directement sans problèmes ni orgueil:
Je t'aime ainsi car je ne sais aimer autrement,


Si ce n'est de cette façon sans être ni toi ni moi,
Aussi près que ta main sur ma poitrine est la mienne,
Aussi près que tes yeux se ferment sur mon rêve.
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 06:53 am
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A Dream within a Dream
Edgar Allen Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet, if Hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it, therefore, the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 06:57 am
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"Jenny Kissed Me"

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.

-- By Leigh Hunt.
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Mon 10 Oct, 2005 12:40 am
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Mon 10 Oct, 2005 07:32 am
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
by Christopher  Marlowe


Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning;
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

        
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Tue 11 Oct, 2005 02:34 am
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I'm Your Man

If you want a lover   
I'll do anything you ask me to        
And if you want another kind of love            
I'll wear a mask for you                  
If you want a partner                       
Take my hand                            
Or if you want to strike me down in anger                                 
Here I stand                                      
 I'm your man                                           


If you want a boxer
     I will step into the ring for you
         And if you want a doctor
             I'll examine every inch of you
                   If you want a driver
                       Climb inside
                             Or if you want to take me for a ride
                                 You know you can
                                       I'm your man


 


Ah, the moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or I'd crawl to you baby
And I'd fall at your feet
And I'd howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I'd claw at your heart
And I'd tear at your sheet
I'd say please, please
I'm your man


And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road    
I will steer for you        
And if you want to work the street alone              
I'll disappear for you                  
If you want a father for your child                       
Or only want to walk with me a while                            
Across the sand                                 
I'm your man                                      


If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for yo



Leonard Cohen
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Francis
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 03:45 am
L'amour caché - Félix Arvers

Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère
Un amour éternel en un moment conçu :
Le mal est sans espoir, aussi j'ai dû le taire,
Et celle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.

Hélas! j'aurai passé près d'elle inaperçu,
Toujours à ses côtés et pourtant solitaire ;
Et j'aurai jusqu'au bout fait mon temps sur la terre,
N'osant rien demander et n'ayant rien reçu.

Pour elle, quoique Dieu l'ait faite douce et tendre,
Elle suit son chemin, distraite et sans entendre
Ce murmure d'amour élevé sur ses pas.

A l'austère devoir pieusement fidèle,
Elle dira, lisant ces vers tout remplis d'elle :
" Quelle est donc cette femme ? " Et ne comprendra pas !
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 03:51 am
Beautiful sad love poem *sigh* Thank you Francis
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 04:03 am
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"Lovely dreamer, tell me what you have seen this night?"
"A night full of wonder, a night sown with magic!
No movement on earth or skies or seas,
not even as much as the bee makes near the tiny flower.
Around something motionless, whitening in the lake,
only the full moon moved
and a graceful girl rises clothed in its light."


TEMPTATION Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), translated by Rae Dalven
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 04:09 am
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Thu 13 Oct, 2005 03:13 am
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Paul Eluard
Lady Love (The Beloved)


She is standing on my lids
               And her hair is in my hair
                       She has the colour of my eye
                                     She has the body of my hand
                                                       In my shade she is engulfed
                                                                       As a stone against the sky


                                                                                       She will never close her eyes
                                                                   And she does not let me sleep
                                               And her dreams in the bright day
                                             Make the suns evaporate
                           And me laugh cry and laugh
     Speak when I have nothing to say



La Enamorada

Ella vive de pie sobre mis párpados
Sus cabellos están entre los míos       
Tiene la forma exacta de mis manos                
Y el color de mis ojos que la miran                         
Ella se hunde entre mi propia sombra                                  
Como una piedra en el azul del cielo.                                                 


Ella tiene los ojos siempre abiertos
             Y me impide dormir con su mirada
                         A plena luz sus sue?os luminosos
                                     Hacen evaporar todos los soles
                                                 Sus sue?os me hacen sollozar  reír
                                                                 Y hablar sin tener nada que decir...


Zaljubljena - L'amoureuse

Na vjedjama mi ona stoji
   I kose su joj u mojima,
     I ima oblik ruku mojih,
     Ociju mojih boju ima,
     U mojoj sjeni ona tone
   Kao kamen u nebesima.


                           Oci joj uvijek otvorene
                                         I spavati me ne pustaju.
                                                       Njezini snovi u punom sjaju
                                                                   Tjeraju sunca da ishlape,
                                                                                 I cine da se smijem, placem,
                                                                                           Da govorim kad nemam o cem.


 


                                                                                                 Elle est debour sur mes paupi?res
                                                                                                   Et ses cheveux sont dans les miens,
                                                                                                     Elle a la forme de mes mains,
                                                                                                   Elle a la couleur de mes yeux,
                                                                                                 Elle s'engloutit dan mon ombre
                                                                                               Comme une pierre sur le ciel.


                                                                                           Elle a toujours les yeux ouverts
                                                                                       Et ne me laisse pas dormir.
                                                                                   Ses r?ves en pleine lumi?re
                                                                             Font s'évaporer les soleils,
                                                                       Me font rire, pleurer et rire,
                                                               Parler sans avoir rien ? dire
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Thu 13 Oct, 2005 05:03 am
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Pablo Neruda

XIV

ME FALTA tiempo para celebrar tus cabellos.
Uno por uno debo contarlos y alabarlos:
otros amantes quieren vivir con ciertos ojos,
yo sólo quiero ser tu peluquero.


En Italia te bautizaron Medusa
por la encrespada y alta luz de tu cabellera.
Yo te llamo chascona mía y enmarañada:
mi corazón conoce las puertas de tu pelo.


Cuando tú te extravíes en tus propios cabellos,
no me olvides, acuérdate que te amo,
no me dejes perdido ir sin tu cabellera


por el mundo sombrío de todos los caminos
que sólo tiene sombra, transitorios dolores,
hasta que el sol sube a la torre de tu pelo.
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