Friday Poem of the Day - If You Forget Me

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one 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.

Pablo Neruda

Hope these beautiful words make your Friday a more beautiful day!

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RL

Thank you for posting this very beautiful poem.


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Will try to keep up a poem-a-day...

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RL

thanks for posting it....I am enjoying your poem-a-day threads :)

amazing, you are... :)

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how are you today? :hi:

i'm sitting here at the sniffa residence, attempting to motivate myself to the shower... :)

:D

RL

mrs. sniffa and i are cleaned and dressed, ready to begin our day of fun and loooove :loveya:

sounds like you are too! :bounce: :D

and yes, i am blissful, as i am every weekend, lately :)

:loveya:

and I've stopped trying to convince others who don't see it and just enjoy those who do.

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RL

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Do you have a clone? :D

RL

but if i did, i'd soooo give her your number :D

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In the mean time, well, you know... :D

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RL

I don't know where you find these.......

But oh baby, keep 'em coming!

Another wonderful poem.......

I thank you, for all the good and beauty you bring into the Lounge...


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I just try to add more to it...

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RL

YOu are too much, my dear RL.......

Words fail me.....

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Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Khash.

Only doing one a day, so it will stretch out a while.

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

RL

I was avoiding DU and got caught up on a poetry website where everyone was trying to analyze that one. And it's one of my favourites: "I should have loved a thunderbird instead"

Here's another (Erica Jong)



Here should be a picture of my favourite apple.
It is also a nude & bottle.
It is also a landscape.
There are no such things as still lives.


Khash.

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RL

seriously, is it bicentennial_baby's favorite poems week around here? *swoon*

:)

Might be some new ones coming that will join your favorites list :D

RL

For a while there I thought I missed your poem of the day. Another great one RetroLounge, thanks for posting these. This one is making me swoon but the Margaret Atwood is still giving me chills.

Not the

We fit together like a hook and eye
A fishhook in my eye

(badly paraphrased, but it's stuck with me for years)

Khash.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4302953

RL

I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.


Gotta admit, the girl is brilliant and haunting....

Khash.

Variations on the Word "Sleep" - My favorite line . . .
"I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
and that necessary."
Now you've done it. I've got to go take another shower!:rofl:

:loveya::loveya::loveya: