March 2012
46 posts
Do you want to go to the seaside?
I’m not trying to say that everybody wants to go
I fell in love at the seaside
I handled my charm with time and slight of hand
- The Kooks, Seaside
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.
I do not love you as if you were a rose made of salt or topaz or an arrow of carnations spreading fire: I love you the way certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you like the plant that never blooms, but conceals within itself the light of those flowers; and, thanks to your love, the darkness of my body houses the suffocating aroma that arose from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, when, or where from; I love you straightforwardly, with neither problems nor pride: I love you thus, not knowing how to love you otherwise
than this way whereby neither ‘you’ nor ‘I’ exist… so close that your hand on my chest is mine, so close that your eyes grow heavy when I tire.
- Pablo Neruda, Soneto XVII
Dancing bears
Painted wings
Things I almost remember,
And a song someone sings…
No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it’s obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January we’re frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won’t you be my valentine?
And we’ll both be safe ‘til St. Patrick’s Day
And if our always is all that we gave
And we someday take that away
I’ll be alright if it was just ‘til St. Patrick’s Day