Lo Fatal

Dichoso el árbol que es apenas sensitivo,

y más la piedra dura, porque esa ya no siente,

pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,

ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.

Ser, y no saber nada, y ser sin rumbo cierto,

y el temor de haber sido y un futuro terror…

Y el espanto seguro de estar mañana muerto,

y sufrir por la vida y por la sombra y por

lo que no conocemos y apenas sospechamos,

y la carne que tienta con sus frescos racimos

y la tumba que aguarda con sus fúnebres ramos,

¡y no saber adónde vamos,

ni de dónde venimos…!

 

-Ruben Dario

 

 

We Real Cool

THE POOL PLAYERS

SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest

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 voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite 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 sould 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.

-Neruda

LOVE is the passion which endureth

LOVE is the passion which endureth,

Which neither time nor absence cureth;

Which nought of earthly change can sever:

Love is the light which shines for ever.

 

What cold and selfish breasts deem madness

Lives in its depths of joy and sadness;

In hearts, on lips, of flame it burneth —

One is its world, to one it turneth.
 

Its chain of gold — what hand can break it?

Its deathless hold — what force can shake it?

Mere passion aught of earth may sever,

But souls that love, love on for ever.

 

-Mary Anne Lamb