7.28.2009

Pablo Neruda Collection

Todos se iran, tu quedaras viviente.
Tu encendiste la vida.
Tu hiciste lo que es tuyo.

Por eso nadie se moleste cuando
parece que estoy solo y no estoy solo,
no estoy con nadie yhablo para todos.

Alguien me esta escuchando y no lo saben,
pero aquellos que canto y que lo saben,
siguen naciendo.
& llenaran el mundo.

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They will all go, but you will stay alive.
You ignited life, you have created what is yours.

Thats why no one is bothered when i am alone,
& not alone. When i'm with someone, & when i speak for all.

Someone is listening to me & they don't know.
But for those who hear me sing, they know.
They continue to be born.
& they will fill the world.


"El Pueblo" Pablo Neruda

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Juegas todos los dias con la luz del universo.
A nadie te pareces desde que yo te amo.
dejame recordarte como eras entonces,
caundo aun no existias.

quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.

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You play everyday with the light of the universe,
you don't remind me of anyone since i've loved you.
let me remember you, how you were then.
back when you didn't exist yet.

I want to do with you what spring does to fruit.

"Juegas todos los dias" Pablo Neruda

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Todo se va en la vida, amigos.
se va o perece.
Se va la rosa que desates,
tambien la boca que te bese.
la agua, la sombra, el viento.
se va o perece.

La mariposa volotea,
revoltea,
y desaparece.

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Everything goes in life, my friends.
It goes or it dies.
The rose you let go dies,
so do the lips that kiss you.
The water, The shadows, The wind,
It goes or it dies.
The butterfly spins & re-spins,
& disappears.

"Mariposa" Pablo Neruda

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He aqui violetas, golondrinas,
por donde se pasean el tiempo y la dulzura.
Pero no pensemos en el mas alla.
Porque no quiero contestar.
Hay tantos muertos.
Tantas manos que han encerrado besos,
y tantas cosas que quiero olvidar.

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Here are violets, sunflowers,
where time and sweetness travel.
But lets not think in the infinity & beyond.
Because i don't want to answer.
There are so many dead.
So many hands that have caged in kisses,
so many things i want to forget.

"No hay olvido (sonata)" Pablo Neruda

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Desde entonces, fuego.
Desde entonces, sangre.
Ladrones con aviones, con moros.
Ladrones con sortijas, con duquesas.
Ladrones con frailes negros bendiciendo.
Venian desde el cielo a matar niños,
y por las calles la sangre de los niños,
corria simplemente, como sangre de niños.

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Since then, fire.
Since then, blood.
Thieves with airplanes, with doors.
Thieves with rings, Thieves with duchesses.
Thieves with black friars blessing them.
They came from the sky to kill children.
& through streets the blood of the children,
ran simply, like the blood of children.

"Explico algunas cosas" Pablo Neruda

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Sabras que no te amo, y que te amo.
Puesto que de dos modos es la vida.
yo te amo para comenzar amarte,
para recomenzar el infinito y para
no dejar de amarte nunca.
Por eso, no te amo todavia.

Te amo y no te amo como si tuviera
en mis manos las llaves de la dicha
y un incierto destino desdichado.

Mi amor tiene dos vidas para amarte,
por eso te amo caundo no te amo,
y por eso te amo caundo te amo.

No te quiero sino porque te quiero,
y de quererte a no quererte llego,
y de esperarte cuando no te espero,
pasa mi corazon del frio al fuego.

Te quiero solo porque te quiero,
te odio sin fin, y odiantote de ruego.
En esta historia solo yo me muero,
y morire de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, amor,
a sangre & fuego.

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You'll know that i don't love you,
& that i love you.
Since in two ways there is life.
I love you to begin loving you,
to restart the infinite, & to never stop loving you.
This is why, i do not love you, yet.

I love you and I don't love you,
as if i had in my hands the keys of happiness,
& an uncertain, unfortunate destiny.

My love has two lives to love you,
thats why i love you when i don't love you.
This is why i love you when i love you.

i don't want you, not because i want you,
but from not loving to loving you, i go.
& from waiting for you when i don't wait for you,
my heart turns hot from cold.

I love you, just because i love you.
I hate you endlessly, and hating you, i beg.
In this story, only i die.
& i'll die from love, because i love you.
Because i love you, love,
with blood & fire.

"LXVI" Pablo Neruda


- (translations by me)

1 comment:

caitlin said...

those are beautiful.