… love is good isn’t it?

Two lovely sonnets… by PABLO NERUDA…

love and life is good… that is all I can say.  Finally, I’m happy.

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Sonnet XCI

Age covers us like drizzle;
time is interminable and sad;
a salt feather touches your face;
a trickle ate through my shirt.

Time does not distinguish between my hands
and a flock of oranges in yours;
with snow and picks life chips away
at your life, which is my life.

My life, which I gave to you, fills
with years like a swelling cluster of fruit.
The grapes will return to the earth.

And even down there time
continues, waiting, raining
on the dust, eager to erase even absence.

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Sonnet XCII

My love, if I die and you don’t -,
My love, if I die and you don’t -,
lets not give grief an even greater field.
No expanse is greater than where we live. 

Dust in the wheat, sand in the deserts,
time, wandering water, the vague wind
swept us on like sailing seeds.
We might not have found one another in time.

This meadow where we find ourselves,
O little infinity! we give it back.
But Love, this love has not ended:

just as it never had a birth, it has
no death: it is like a long river,
only changing lands, and changing lips. 

Living the Good Life!!

I look beyond my window and I see a dewdrop fall down from the leaves to the grass…

It had put a smile on my face as I clear my eyes from my slumber.  I walk down to my window and look further beyond the sill… I see the shadow of the leaves swaying.. projecting their shadow on the grass below.  I open my window and I suddenly fill the chill morning air.. It feels as if it wants to touch me, hug me, and give me some warmth.. my senses become alert.. my lungs are filled with the smell of nature.. the smell of wet grass.

Ahh… the smell of nature… the touch of nature.. the feeling of being in a place wherein everything is simply perfect.  Everything is natural.. no machineries.. no clanking of cars.. no ringing of phones or cellphones.  The good life!

In the past, people never relied on technology.. everything that they had was given to them by nature.  There were no need for any complications.. they wake up… eat.. go to work.. and enjoy the feeling of the breeze.. the smell of grass.. the smell of clean air.  Today, we live in an age of technology, where we would look left and right and see only tall buildings made by man..  wherein people are using cellphones and all we would hear from them would be “What’s your new ringtone?”

Whatever happened to the days wherein people would just stop and watch a sunrise… what happened to waking up to a new day and feeling the breeze on their hair?

Don’t get me wrong… I love technology, I’m a TECH AFFICIONADO.. I love my computer.. I love my cellphone.. however, I am also a nature freak.  I love the feel of the breeze.. the smell of leaves in the morning, the chirping of birds when I wake up.  I would gladly give up all my gadgets to just a simple life in a cabin with plants and trees and animals.

I admit that I have been overwhelmed by technology for the past years.  I have enjoyed every lil bit of it and I still enjoy it now.  However, it has been a while since I’ve communed with nature.  It has been a while since I stopped and smelled the flowers. Lately though, it seems that it’s all coming back.. people usually forget about the simple life… that they are touched more by money and everything that goes with it.  Its true that money makes the world go round.. but it can never really make anyone happy.

I admit that I was blinded by what money can give us.  What power it holds over us is far greater than anyone might imagine.  Unless we break free of it, we will always be a slave to that paper with the faces in front of them. 

I am now trying to live a good life.. a life I know I will enjoy and will cherish.  Let’s not let technology rule over us… let’s just enjoy the simple things in life.