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15th February 2012
Winter  blues by catalfonso

Winter blues

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I think I have the winter blues.. I dont feel like doing anything.. I just want to lay all day in the couch, which is impossible since I have to work everyday :P. Anyhow, I took this picture and I put the beggining of my favorite poem (to tell you the true sound much better in spanish than in english)
I can write the saddest lines tonight.

Write for example: ‘The night is fractured
and they shiver, blue, those stars, in the distance'

The night wind turns in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest lines tonight.
I loved her, sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like these I held her in my arms.
I kissed her greatly under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could I not have loved her huge, still eyes.

I can write the saddest lines tonight.
To think I don't have her, to feel I have lost her.

Hear the vast night, vaster without her.
Lines fall on the soul like dew on the grass.

What does it matter that I couldn't keep her.
The night is fractured and she is not with me.

That is all. Someone sings far off. Far off,
my soul is not content to have lost her.

As though to reach her, my sight looks for her.
My heart looks for her: she is not with me


The same night whitens, in the same branches.
We, from that time, we are not the same.

I don't love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the breeze to reach her.

Another's kisses on her, like my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body, infinite eyes.

I don't love her, that's certain, but perhaps I love her.
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

Since, on these nights, I held her in my arms,
my soul is not content to have lost her.

Though this is the last pain she will make me suffer,
and these are the last lines I will write for her.

Pablo Neruda
Comments
Ithaca winters definitely have a way of bringing out the blues. I hope you feel better soon!
posted February 16th, 2012  
@melissapike can you believe the avarage sunny days in Ithaca is 120??... it is not even half of the year :(
posted February 16th, 2012  
Oh I don't like winter either! Creative shot - but spring is coming! The poetry is written well, good therapy as well.
posted March 10th, 2012  
@myhrhelper I am still kind of "bored" and have been sick .. so I haven't take ani pictures :P I can NOT wait for spring
posted March 10th, 2012  
Hope you are doing better - spring is here!
posted April 7th, 2012  
Wonderful shot.
posted July 27th, 2012  
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