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I was sent a very sweet poem today. I thought I would share it with all of my lovely SG's....

Soneto XIV (Sonnet 14) by Pablo Neruda
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Me falta tiempo para celebrar tus cabellos.
Uno por uno debo contarlos y alabarlos:
otros amantes quieren vivir con ciertos ojos,
yo solo quiero ser tu peluquero.

En Italia te bautizaron Medusa
por la encrespada y alta luz de tu cabellera.
Yo te llamo chascona mia y enmaranada:
mi corazon conoce las puertas de tu pelo.

Cuando tu te extravies en tus propios cabellos,
no me olvides, acuerdate que te amo,
no me dejes perdido ir sin tu cabellera

por el mundo sombrio de todos los caminos
que solo tiene sombra, transitorios dolores,
hasta que el sol sube a la torre de tu pelo.
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There are not enough years to celebrate your hair.
I need to count and praise each strand:
other lovers want to live with certain eyes,
whereas I wish simply to be your hairdresser.

Italy baptised you Medusa
for the lofty, curling light of your tresses.
My name for you is Chascona, Tangle:
My heart knows the doors in your hair.

When you stray and get lost in your own hair,
do not forget me; remember that I love you,
do not leave me to wander lost without it

through the sombre world of paths,
of pain that visits in the shadows,
and flees as the Sun rises atop the tower of your hair.
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Kind of fun, huh?
I of course had to do a little research to find familiarize myself with Pablo Neruda, and this is, in short, what I discovered:

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftal Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation. Neruda's pen name was derived from Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda; Pablo is thought to be from Paul Verlaine. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.

Thank you for sending me this poem. You know who you are

And thank you to all of my friends on here. I really have enjoyed being a part of SG mostly because of the many interesting poeple I have met and relationships I have gained. So I hope you all have a good and safe new years eve, and, if you have a moment, give my set a little love for me


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