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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
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Tonight I Can Write
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, "The night is starry
and the stars are blue and 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 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 starry 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 tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
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. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite 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 soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this is the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
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Amber Berry This was the poem I liked best. It seemed to sum up all the others and I like the format. Thanks for sharing it!


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Mae Is this the song of despair? I'm thinking of purchasing this as a present to my friend this Christmas... she writes romantic poetry... and Neruda is THE romantic poet.


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Marisol Garcia porta Its is always my favorite!!!


Valerie Doherty I am with you! I love this. Have you seen the video when Andy Garcia reads this poem?


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Jerry Tenzin I never fall in love !when I reads this poem I feel willing to fall in love but I never know what it will be happen??????


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Kusum Pablo Neruda is my favourite


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Kusum Pablo Neruda is my favourite


Maryann Extrodinary way he captures the inner joy, pain, despair & then he surfaces spent by her, memorializes her on the surface -but his soul -oh his soul betrays his victory.


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Joseph philips Love is so short, forgetting so long...


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Jennifer My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.


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Bernard Wekesa Hauntingly painful and joyful at the same time. An epitaph


Milan Vohra Unforgettable lines! Embedded in my memory since the first time I read them. Sometimes I think all other memories may fade, even of loving, but the pain of these lines will leave with me.


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Jayakrishna Maneri I want to do with you, what the spring has done with the cherry tree


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Surag Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too....


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Mike Wow, that's just stunning.


Nicole  charlton This was my favorite poem.


Logan The best poem in the collection imo


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