Sunday, February 03, 2008

Just a treat

Hmmm... I am not supposed to be blogging. I am supposed to be translating. But hey, am happy. Just finished the first chapter! Yey!

And to treat myself, I have to post something. Even just to talk about nothing. For tomorrow, I will start with the second chapter. Hay, my eyes are tired.

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The songs of Girl Valencia have been my constant companion for the past few months. Her cool music is just right for someone like me who needs concentration yet requires a constant sound to accompany me in my travails every night. The melody and the words are not cloying. I can play them over and over and over and over and over again. Enough. :- ) I think my fave among her songs are "Sisters" and "Driftwood." Get hold of her CD! It's really wonderful!

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Carla sent me a voice recording of Pablo Neruda's poem. Beauuuutifuuuuul. It reminded of the TV series Beauty and the Beast? I don't recall too many from my childhood days but I don't think I'll ever forget the hauntingly touching theme song "The First Time I Loved Forever." Posting it here, including the poems in-between. Again, beauuuutifuuuuuul.


The First Time I Loved Forever

Lyrics by Melanie Safka
Music by Lee Holdridge
Sung byLisa Angelle
(From "Beauty and the Beast")
With excerpts from the poem “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly” by the American poet E.E. Cummings

Poem:
“Somewhere I have never traveled
Gladly beyond any experience
Your eyes have their silence
And your most frail gesture of things
Which enclose me
But which I cannot touch
Because they are too near.”

The first time I loved forever
Was when you whispered my name
And I knew at once you loved me
For the me of who I am

The first time I loved forever
I cast all else aside
And I bid my heart to follow
Be there no more need to hide

And if wishes and dreams
Are merely for children
And if love's a tale for fools
I'll live the dream with you

Poem:
“oh, if your words be to close me
I, my life will shut, very beautifully
Suddenly, as when the heart of this flower
Imagines the snow carefully, everywhere
descending”.

For all my life and forever
There's a truth I will always know
When my world divides and shatters
Your love is where I'll go

Poem:
“I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens. Only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.”

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey I remember that song AND the tv series that starred a much more feminine Linda Hamilton --- a far cry from her muscle-bound role in Terminator 2. :-D

Anonymous said...

I love that series. I remember my two close buddies who are "addict" in the series that after one episode, they will talk over the phone about what happened.

Anonymous said...

aling pablo neruda poem yung napakinggan mo? i love that cd of the "Il Postino" soundtrack, nakakamatay ang mga poems! but of course, the favorite is "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" read by Andy Garcia. haaaayyy...

Anonymous said...

Hey Jen, uyyy finally, mag-comment ako! :-) Hello from California! I love that song/poem, napapahinto nga ako everytime I hear it on the radio. Sige, when you get married 'yan kaya gawin natin music for bridal march? :-)

Jen said...

Hey Snglguy. Oo nga no... Linda Hamilton nga pala! hehehe .. forgot her name but I dearly loved that series! Thanks for the reminder! sabi na sayo e! you have a good memory!

Hi anonymous. Thank you for visiting!

Hi Rina. Yung I like for you to be still. Ganda nga! Meron kang copy nung.."Tonight I can write the saddest lines" ? :-)

hi ate gara! pwde nga syang pang-wedding! hehehe... pag-iisipan ko :-)

Anonymous said...

ooh, "I like for you to be still." Glenn Close. Matindi din yun... try hanapin ko yung CD if i still have it, for some reason i didn't save the files in my laptop pala, nandun sya sa PC ko sa dating office ko, ggrrr..

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