What should I post for my 35,000th Post? A Poem? Okay!

[RetroLounge]

Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars 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, and 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 shattered 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 searches for her as though to go to her.
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. Like my kisses before.
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 be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Pablo Neruda

:shrug:

RL

[motely36]

1. Can't do a drive by rec anymore

So I guess you will know I read this!

:thumbsup:

[RetroLounge]

5. Thanks Motely!

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Congrats on achieving 35,000 posts!

This is wonderful, the poem by Neruda. But I wish you'd posted one of your own works...

Here's to many more posts, and poems too!

:toast:

[Aristus]

3. Retro! How are you?

:hi::pals::fistbump:

Great poem. Until I got to the end, I thought you wrote it. I don't know much Pablo Naruda.

Good to see you, and congrats on 35,000! B-)

[RetroLounge]

6. Oh, i wish I had read this!

Neruda is an amazing poet...

:hi:

RL

[graywarrior]

4. !

:hi: :loveya:

[RetroLounge]

7. !!!

:loveya:

Kiss the duck for me...

RL

[velvet]

8. oh

Beautiful poem.

Congratulations, what a big, big number

[Dystopian]

9. Thank you for posting...

:hi:
Awesome poem...had to kick for all to see.
Love it all...I used to write...
One can read ...or read between the lines...it's all magical.

peace~

[madrchsod]

10. hmmmmm...glad to see ya.....

[denbot]

11. Nice, Good seeing you post RetroL

Happy Holidays

[Sky Masterson]

12. Jesus...

That was so painfully good..
Congrats on your milestone Retro.

[bigwillq]

13. Congrats on 35,000!

:toast: :bounce: :hi: :hug:

[swimboy]

14. Quite a milestone

I'm very happy to see you, my friend. :hi:

[Callalily]

15. Congrats and thanks

for the poem, but it is so melancholy!

:hi:

[blueraven95]

16. morning Retro!

:hi: