SaintPeter5858 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Rizal's Mi Ultimo Adios Quote Link to comment
Leyna Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday —When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoonLooking off down the long streetTo nowhere,Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no-expectationAnd nothing-I-have-to-do and I'm-happy-why?And if-Monday-never-had-to-come —When you have forgotten that, I say,And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;And how we finally went in to Sunday dinner,That is to say, went across the front room floor to the ink-spotted table in the southwest cornerTo Sunday dinner, which was always chicken and noodlesOr chicken and riceAnd salad and rye bread and teaAnd chocolate chip cookies —I say, when you have forgotten that,When you have forgotten my little presentimentThat the war would be over before they got to you;And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bed,And lay loose-limbed for a moment in the week-endBright bedclothes,Then gently folded into each other —When you have, I say, forgotten all that,Then you may tell,Then I may believe You have forgotten me well.by Gwendolyn Brooks Edited July 1, 2011 by Leyna Quote Link to comment
Leyna Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 For women who are 'difficult' to love you are a horse running aloneand he tries to tame youcompares you to an impossible highwayto a burning housesays you are blinding himthat he could never leave youforget youwant anything but youyou dizzy him, you are unbearableevery woman before or after youis doused in your nameyou fill his mouthhis teeth ache with memory of tastehis body just a long shadow seeking yoursbut you are always too intensefrightening in the way you want himunashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your headand you tried to change didn't you?closed your mouth moretried to be softerprettierless volatile, less awakebut even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreamsso what did you want to do lovesplit his head open?you can't make homes out of human beingssomeone should have already told you thatand if he wants to leavethen let him leaveyou are terrifyingand strange and beautifulsomething not everyone knows how to love ~ warsan shire, poem eleven Quote Link to comment
immatureandunstable Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I'm Explaining a Few ThingsPablo Neruda You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?and the rain repeatedly spatteringits words and drilling them fullof apertures and birds?I'll tell you all the news. I lived in a suburb,a suburb of Madrid, with bells,and clocks, and trees. From there you could look outover Castille's dry face:a leather ocean.My house was calledthe house of flowers, because in every crannygeraniums burst: it wasa good-looking housewith its dogs and children.Remember, Raul?Eh, Rafel? Federico, do you rememberfrom under the groundmy balconies on whichthe light of June drowned flowers in your mouth?Brother, my brother!Everythingloud with big voices, the salt of merchandises,pile-ups of palpitating bread,the stalls of my suburb of Arguelles with its statuelike a drained inkwell in a swirl of hake:oil flowed into spoons,a deep bayingof feet and hands swelled in the streets,metres, litres, the sharpmeasure of life,stacked-up fish,the texture of roofs with a cold sun in whichthe weather vane falters,the fine, frenzied ivory of potatoes,wave on wave of tomatoes rolling down the sea. And one morning all that was burning,one morning the bonfiresleapt out of the earthdevouring human beings—and from then on fire,gunpowder from then on,and from then on blood.Bandits with planes and Moors,bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,bandits with black friars spattering blessingscame through the sky to k*ll childrenand the blood of children ran through the streetswithout fuss, like children's blood. Jackals that the jackals would despise,stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out,vipers that the vipers would abominate! Face to face with you I have seen the bloodof Spain tower like a tideto drown you in one waveof pride and knives! Treacherousgenerals:see my dead house,look at broken Spain:from every house burning metal flowsinstead of flowers,from every socket of SpainSpain emergesand from every dead child a rifle with eyes,and from every crime bullets are bornwhich will one day findthe bull's eye of your hearts. And you'll ask: why doesn't his poetryspeak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land? Come and see the blood in the streets.Come and seeThe blood in the streets.Come and see the bloodIn the streets! Quote Link to comment
quinlanvos Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 One of my favorites: If you forget me - Pablo Neruda I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine. Quote Link to comment
SaintPeter5858 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Footprints in the Sand. The poem and its music Quote Link to comment
SaintPeter5858 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Another touching poem for me is Rizal's "Mi Ultimo Adios" Quote Link to comment
girlspankee Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 It has to be Invictus. Quote Link to comment
hornystudph Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Footprints in the SandDesideratapoems by e.e. cummings Quote Link to comment
pacey Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 right now i am incredibly moved by pablo neruda's "sonnet xvii" here's most of it: i love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;so I love you because I know no other way Quote Link to comment
cocoy0 Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Lourd De Veyra and Jim Libiran are reading poetry on air sa Chillax Radio. Salitan with songs such as Sylvia La Torre's "Alembong" and TVJ's Tough Hits. Nangangalahati na yata sila sa Cirilo Bautista collection ni Lourd. Quote Link to comment
pacey Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 pablo neruda's sonnet xvii remains my favorite, but today i can relate to this more: IF YOU FORGET ME I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log,everything carries me to you,as if everything that exists,aromas, light, metals,were little boatsthat sailtoward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now,if little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenlyyou forget medo not look for me,for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad,the wind of bannersthat passes through my life,and you decideto leave me at the shoreof the heart where I have roots,rememberthat on that day,at that hour,I shall lift my armsand my roots will set offto seek another land. Butif each day,each hour,you feel that you are destined for mewith implacable sweetness,if each day a flowerclimbs up to your lips to seek me,ah my love, ah my own,in me all that fire is repeated,in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,my love feeds on your love, beloved,and as long as you live it will be in your armswithout leaving mine. Quote Link to comment
silvercross0816 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 the Prophet - Kahlil Gibran Quote Link to comment
Legato Bluesomers Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 one century of verse Quote Link to comment
Julianda Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Mark Twain's "All right, then, I'll go to hell" Quote Link to comment
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