Saturday, May 19, 2007

19th May 2007

Happy Birthday to my Beloved cousin LinYing =)
lolx ... gotta stuck with you for the rest of my life hahax

anyway i just saw the sonnet by Pablo Neruda as linked by i dont know who in my tagboard, but i really appreciate her/him because i really like that and couldnt find it.. Thanks alot, really alot.. mind indicating who you are ?

Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XVII (100 Love Sonnets, 1960)

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.

basically i'm falling in love with Literature.. due to the fact that im taking it now.. very interesting subject and i hope you guys like it as well..

cheers,
zhai

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