Pablo Neruda & American Idol

Tonight I can write the saddest lines


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.

--Pablo Neruda

I simply adore his affection and creativity. I met Pablo Neruda last year. Miss Platon was the one who introduced him to us. I guess Mister Pablo was one of the reasons why I got so hooked up with literature and poetry. =p

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...WE'RE DOWN TO THE FINAL 3

Chris Daughtry?(unsure of his last name) got voted off American Idol too night. Aww. I loved the man's voice. Haha. It's actually difficult to choose from the final 4 ( Elliott Yamin, Taylor Hicks, Chris Daughtry and of course, the sexy, gorgeous and talented Katharine McPhee)

Woohoo. I got nervous and I almost cried because the judges concluded that Jat's performance was at risk. Grrrrr. But I'm truly happy because she manage to stay. I love Katharine McPhee. =)

She is even the last girl who stayed in American Idol.

I love Katharine McPhee, Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin.

..but I bet Elliott Yamin will win. I love Elliott as much as I love Kat and Taylor. So it really confuses me whom I'm going to vote for. (yuck! as if naman makakaboto dito sa Pinas through text! Haha)

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It's getting late. So what? The night IS young. Hahaha. I can actually hear raindrops that sings sweetly in my ears, with matching angry thunder.

Mom is throwing a furious look at me coz I still don't want to get my butt off the computer. Haha. I'm feeling drowsy right now but I ain't in the mood to sleep yet. Talk about irony.