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Lialei
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posted January 12, 2008 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
XXVIII

Love, from seed to seed, from planet to planet,
the wind with its net through the darkening nations,
war with its bloody shoes,
or even the day, with a thorny night.

Wherever we went, islands or bridges or flags,
there were the violins of the fleeting autumn,
bullet-laced;
happiness echoing at the rim of the wineglass;
sorrow detaining us, with its lessons of tears.

Through all those republics the wind whipped ---
its arrogant pavillions, its glacial hair;
it would return the flowers, later, to their work.

But no withering autumn ever touched us.
In our stable place a love sprouted, grew:
as rightfully empowered as the dew.

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Lialei
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posted January 12, 2008 02:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
LXX

Maybe-- though I do not bleed---I am wounded,
walking
along one of the rays of your life.
In the middle of the jungle the water stops me,
the rain that falls with its sky.

Then I touch the heart that fell, raining:
there I know it was your eyes
that pierced me, into my grief's vast hinterlands.
And only a shadow's whisper appears,

Who is it? Who is it?, but it has no name,
the leaf or dark water that patters
in the middle of the jungle, deaf along the paths:

so, my love, I knew that I was wounded,
and no one spoke there except the shadows,
the wandering night, the kiss of the rain.

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Lialei
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posted January 12, 2008 02:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
XLIV

You must know that I do not love
and that I love you,
because everything has its two sides;
a word is one wing of the silence,
fire has its cold half.

I love you in order to begin to love you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving you:
that's why I do not love you yet.

I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held
keys in my hand: to a future of joy ---
a wretched, muddled fate ---

My love has two lives, in order to love you:
that's why I love you when I do not love you,
and also why I love you when I do.


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Lialei
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posted January 12, 2008 02:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
XLV


Don't go far off, not even for a day, because ---
because --- I don't know how to say it:
a day is long
and I will be waiting for you,
as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run
together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back?
Will you leave me here, dying?



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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted January 12, 2008 05:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message

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NosiS
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posted January 12, 2008 05:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message

He's quite a treasure!

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AcousticGod
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posted January 12, 2008 09:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message
That was nice

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Lialei
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posted January 17, 2008 03:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
Stephen~

NosiS~ yes he is.
He sets my heart on gentle waves.

AG


more~~


XLVI


Of all the stars I admired, drenched
in various rivers and mists,
I chose only the one I love.
Since then I sleep with the night.

Of all the waves, one wave
and another wave,
green sea, green chill,
branchings of green,
I chose only the one wave,
the indivisible wave of your body.

All the waterdrops, all the roots,
all the threads of light
gathered to me here;
they came to me sooner or later.

I wanted your hair, all for myself.
From all the graces
my homeland offered
I chose only your savage heart.

1. XXXIX


When I die, I want your
hands on my eyes;
I want the light and wheat
of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness
over me once more;
I want to feel the softness
that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while
I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear
the wind,
I want you to sniff the sea's aroma
that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the
sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang
above everything else
to continue to flourish,
full-flowered:

so that you can reach everything
my love directs you to,
so that my shadow can travel
along in your hair,
so that everything can learn
the reason for my song.


VI


Lost in the forest, I broke off
a dark twig
and lifted its whisper to
my thirsty lips:
maybe it was the voice of
the rain crying,
a cracked bell, or a torn heart.

Something from far off: it seemed
deep and secret to me,
hidden by the earth,
a shout muffled by huge autumns,
by the moist half-open
darkness of the leaves.

Wakening from the dreaming
forest there,
the hazel-sprig
sang under my tongue,
its drifting fragrance
climbed up through
my conscious mind

as if suddenly
the roots I had left behind
cried out to me,
the land I had lost
with my childhood ---
and I stopped,
wounded by the wandering scent.

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26taurus
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posted July 02, 2008 11:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

Thank you, Lia.

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted July 03, 2008 02:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message

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writesomething
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posted July 04, 2008 01:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for writesomething     Edit/Delete Message
"I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, 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 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 blood."

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NosiS
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posted July 04, 2008 10:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message
These translations were done well.

His original poems (in Spanish) are really exquisite. Ah...

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writesomething
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posted July 17, 2008 12:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for writesomething     Edit/Delete Message
Tonight I can write the saddest lines

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
and the blue stars 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, and 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 shattered 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 searches for her as though to go to her.
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. Like my kisses before.
Her voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite 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 sould 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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Pearlty
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