The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 11/27/05)

[RetroLounge]

Love

What's wrong with you, with us,
what's happening to us?
Ah our love is a harsh cord
that binds us wounding us
and if we want
to leave our wound,
to separate,
it makes a new knot for us and condemns us
to drain our blood and burn together.

What's wrong with you? I look at you
and I find nothing in you but two eyes
like all eyes, a mouth
lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful,
a body just like those that have slipped
beneath my body without leaving any memory.

And how empty you went through the world
like a wheat-colored jar
without air, without sound, without substance!
I vainly sought in you
depth for my arms
that dig, without cease, beneath the earth:
beneath your skin, beneath your eyes,
nothing,
beneath your double breast scarcely
raised
a current of crystalline order
that does not know why it flows singing.
Why, why, why,
my love, why?

Pablo Neruda

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RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ah, my dear RetroLounge......

This poem is so sad, so beautiful, so poignant......

I thank you for enlarging my world this way......

Blessings on you and yours, my dear.......

:loveya: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

2. .

:hug:

RL

[RetroLounge]

3. Evening Kick

:kick:

RL