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[PacificDude]

Sylvia Plath

[mallyboppa]

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Richard Brautigan

[Meliai]

Pablo Neruda

Had no idea what he looked like before I looked him up, he looks like he would be someone's grumpy accountant, not a poet
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[Din Djarin]

Ah, a young Fidel Castro! Very righteous, comrade!

[PacificDude]

Pablo Neruda

Had no idea what he looked like before I looked him up, he looks like he would be someone's grumpy accountant, not a poet
: p

Meliai Great poets never look like the rest of us...haha.

P.S. I Love Neruda. What's your favorite poem :-)

[mallyboppa]

First poem that Ever moved me was " Prayer Before Birth" By louis Macneice !

I was very young maybe 8 or 9 and our teacher read it out in class , I remember there was nothing else in the world only those words coming out of his mouth and the end Bit "let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me. Otherwise kill me."
I never forgot ! so moving for a little kid that understood little about the world and war

[Meliai]

Meliai Great poets never look like the rest of us...haha.

P.S. I Love Neruda. What's your favorite poem :-)

Mmmmm.....
Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, probably


Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

[PacificDude]

Mmmmm.....
Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, probably

Meliai Sad is not always bad - it helps to let the bad feelings go. What has made you so sad?

[Meliai]

Meliai Sad is not always bad - it helps to let the bad feelings go. What has made you so sad?

I'm not sad (right now) lol, but I do like sad poems
It's a romantic poem about love lost. Neruda seems like the epitome of a romantic which is why it was surprising he looks like a curmudgeonly, staid man haha. I kinda expected him to be sexayyyy

[PacificDude]

I'm not sad (right now) lol, but I do like sad poems
It's a romantic poem about love lost. Neruda seems like the epitome of a romantic which is why it was surprising he looks like a curmudgeonly, staid man haha. I kinda expected him to be sexayyyy

Meliai Well, you know I'm a Buddhist... haha. So I think sex is fun but over rated. However, this song speaks to many:

[PacificDude]

Mmmmm.....
Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, probably


Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Meliai Oh, you did an edit before I got to take a peek... haha. So you can read Neruda in the original? Impressive!! I only do English, and I'm sure much is lost in translation big time. Am I right?

[Meliai]

Nah I know very rudimentary Spanish but I definitely had to look up the translation
Sounds much prettier en Español

[PacificDude]

Anne Sexton




“Welcome Morning"

There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry "hello there, Anne"
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning.

All this is God,
right here in my pea-green house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.

So while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter of the morning,
lest it go unspoken.

The Joy that isn't shared, I've heard,
dies young.”


― Anne Sexton

[PacificDude]

Meliai I'm not sad (right now) lol, but I do like sad poems
It's a romantic poem about love lost. Neruda seems like the epitome of a romantic which is why it was surprising he looks like a curmudgeonly, staid man haha. I kinda expected him to be sexayyyy

I love a lot of Spanish music, even though I don't understand all the words. This is my favorite one:

[PacificDude]

David Foster Wallace