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“I am here. Wandering.”

Do you ever see your “friends” (aka school friends who you haven’t talked to since you hit puberty) on facebook posting pictures of their fun-filled trips to the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, or somewhere exciting and exotic that you can only dream of travelling to because you have a butt load of student loans? Do you ever wonder where they get the cash to be so luxurious? How did they pay for a undergrad degree and still have money to travel after they graduate? How do they afford those fancy retreats or restaurants?

Do you ever look up in the deep dark blue sky and see a bright, shiny, and seemingly perfect round moon, and then wish that someone you love is also taking this incredible sight in, wherever they are? And if they are, do you wish that they are thinking about you, too? Or do you make a wish for them to wish for you?

Do you ever want to spend time with someone, but then when you do you end up spending that time in silence? Do you wonder what they think about? Do they feel what you feel? Serenity and happiness, or discomfort, awkwardness and wishes to be somewhere else? Are they telling you something with their silence? What are you saying with your silence? What if this silence is doing more damage than good? Or is this silence a bridge for more possibilities and options? Are you satisfied with silence, even when you know time is only threatening to take that someone away?

If you are there wandering, should I whisk you away and show you the way I want us to go?

 
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Posted by on September 14, 2011 in A Poetic Spin

 

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July 5th, 2009

Wednesday night after rehearsal

I headed on down

Cambie and 18th

To Kino Café I went

Together with my family

Sat at a table near the front

At the feet of the performers

And enjoyed

A beautiful night out in Spain

My eyes full of admiration

For dancers of Flamenco

 
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Posted by on July 9, 2010 in A Poetic Spin

 

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Picture II

I wrote a song recently for a short film I’m making this semester called Straight Forward. But I’m having a hard time finding an appropriate title for it…
Lyrics (part of it taken from a previous entry) are as follows:

There is a picture of us
I am smiling
So are you

I stare at my face
I look happy
But really I’m lost

When I long for what we had
I look at our happy smiles
Our affections are frozen in time
That’s all I need to hold on

There is a picture of us
I am smiling
So are you

I stare at your face
You look the same
I don’t know what that means

When I long for what we had
I look at our happy smiles
Our affections are frozen in time
That’s all I need to hold on

Our affections are frozen in time
How I wish my love was enough

 
 

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Another Medley

Here I am
In this room again

Last time I was here
I asked my past
To follow me fast

Now
Wherever I go
My shadow bestows

Serving up a decade
Of dreamy facade

“Thanks for not letting me forget
And the pleasant memories”

But I think I’ll stay
with exhaustive ironies
And my fan club of two

 
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Posted by on April 25, 2010 in A Poetic Spin

 

3:27 AM

I’m still up. At this hour. Writing.
Writing a blog that no one really reads.
Yet i can’t stop
However sleep-deprived i am.

I wish you were here
So i can watch you sleep
At least then i get a sense of serenity
A touch of the realm of peacefulness
That i cannot yet enjoy

Good night
My sweet princess

 
 

Love’s Ignorance

At nights when I come home early
I turn on the tube and sit on the couch
My empty gaze
Clears my mind
My expressionless stare
Relieves me of my burdens
My overworking brain
Forgets about the day
And the nights when thoughts of you
Creep up next to me
Cosily
Yet saddening to a point
Where I wish I can’t sink any lower
To a place
Where I wish I had no soul
Only then
Could I face the truth you left

 
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Posted by on March 26, 2010 in A Poetic Spin

 

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Poetry in the bathroom

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche

by Pablo Neruda

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo : ‘La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos’.
El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.
En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.
Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.
Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.
Oir la noche immensa, más inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.
Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.
La noche está estrellada y ella no está conmigo.
Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.
La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos arboles.
Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.
De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto al amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Aunque ésta sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

translated by W.S. Merwin

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, and sometimes 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 snow like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
That 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 is 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 is 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.

This is perhaps my favourite poem. For a long time the book “Love, Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda from the movie The Postman” lived in my bathroom. (I had picked up the book in the past spring semester when I took a World Literature class). And since it’s such a short read, I open it whenever I go to release the vulgar substance that is inside me. I would always flip to this one if I don’t have time to go over the other ones. This and I’d Like For You To Be Still are probably the two of the most beautiful poems I’ve ever read.

 
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Posted by on March 9, 2010 in A Poetic Spin

 

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Purple Wristband

Purple Wristband

Circles my hand

Serves as a reminder

For a night that I will for sure remember

After that conversation

I begin to look into our situation

I have long felt a connection

For which I am craving satisfaction

So help me to understand

Purple wristband

Lead me to his hand

 
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Posted by on November 24, 2009 in A Poetic Spin

 

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現在 – 中文篇 (二)

現在 就像很多其他個晚上一樣

非常的感傷

心情不好, 低落

原因多多少少知道

不過沒想到

這麼小 (insignificant) 的一件事情

竟然可以影響我這麼多

看來我真的老了…

待會就要睡覺了

所以還可以過的去

不用擔心…

還滿期待下午的課

:)

 
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Posted by on September 11, 2009 in A Poetic Spin, 中文篇

 

Picture

I stare

At the picture which captured

Us

I am smiling

So are you

I stare at my face

I look happy

But really I am lost

I stare at your face

You look the same

I don’t know what that means

I stare at us

Our affections are frozen in time

And that’s all I need to hold on

 
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Posted by on July 25, 2009 in A Poetic Spin, Lovey-Dovey

 

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