03-10-2013, 09:47 PM
This is not just a couple of reflections disguised as poetry on Neruda's Caballero solo poem but also reminisces to my Barbara poems.
A loneyly man I was back then but at least in a suite and with a tie on.
I can't link you yet to the superb translation of Neruda's poem (copyright issues but soon, I promise. who can read Spanish just tell me.;-) )
Man totally blue
A wistful little star
was far too high
[from the lyrics of Shadow of Your Smile]
Night switched off daylight.
People dispersed minding
their after-work businesses.
Watch out for that man
dressed in shades of blue ,
his tightly-Windsor-knit Italian tie
sparkling colorfully in sunlight
and bar-light only, loosened,
worn on a shirt colored
Turchese says my Milanese tailor:
Turquoise for you.
The man is between affairs,
he roams at nights alone,
and out on city streets,
where he walks now,
sometimes reluctantly grinning
at the youngsters trying to
win their girls’ hearts,
but mainly just walking,
stiff-chinned and half-closed-eyed,
up and down boulevards .
Sinking into mostly dark eyes,
espresso and emerald and aquamarine,
and the darkest of brown
in a South American Indian’s eyes.
She seemed furious about something
He did not want to know, so
she talked, her voice so velvety,
talked her brains out, while he,
besides drinking whiskey, starred
at her bulging décolleté amazed.
A look she mistook for him
agreeing to her flood of words,
and when they left, he simply asked her
to tell the cab driver where to go.
You could say he did not mind.
In his eyes, blue, sailor’s eyes
reflecting the seas he had crossed,
you would find piano-black sparklings,
and the lines of her constantly moving
lips and the breathtaking outlook on
her breasts in slow motion.
She, in her splendid apartment
exhausted him physically
and it felt so good
afterwards to enjoy
standing at the glass front ,
legs somewhat shaking still,
to overlook Brooklyn
at night.
Just could not find the Astrud Gilberto/Stan Getz verson of The Shadow of Your Smile, but George Benson is hopefully good enough for you:
http://youtu.be/E4Yr9sF6ZwQ
and here is Pablo Neruda in his own words:
http://www.poemasyversos.me/poetas-de-le...llero-solo
A loneyly man I was back then but at least in a suite and with a tie on.
I can't link you yet to the superb translation of Neruda's poem (copyright issues but soon, I promise. who can read Spanish just tell me.;-) )
Man totally blue
A wistful little star
was far too high
[from the lyrics of Shadow of Your Smile]
Night switched off daylight.
People dispersed minding
their after-work businesses.
Watch out for that man
dressed in shades of blue ,
his tightly-Windsor-knit Italian tie
sparkling colorfully in sunlight
and bar-light only, loosened,
worn on a shirt colored
Turchese says my Milanese tailor:
Turquoise for you.
The man is between affairs,
he roams at nights alone,
and out on city streets,
where he walks now,
sometimes reluctantly grinning
at the youngsters trying to
win their girls’ hearts,
but mainly just walking,
stiff-chinned and half-closed-eyed,
up and down boulevards .
Sinking into mostly dark eyes,
espresso and emerald and aquamarine,
and the darkest of brown
in a South American Indian’s eyes.
She seemed furious about something
He did not want to know, so
she talked, her voice so velvety,
talked her brains out, while he,
besides drinking whiskey, starred
at her bulging décolleté amazed.
A look she mistook for him
agreeing to her flood of words,
and when they left, he simply asked her
to tell the cab driver where to go.
You could say he did not mind.
In his eyes, blue, sailor’s eyes
reflecting the seas he had crossed,
you would find piano-black sparklings,
and the lines of her constantly moving
lips and the breathtaking outlook on
her breasts in slow motion.
She, in her splendid apartment
exhausted him physically
and it felt so good
afterwards to enjoy
standing at the glass front ,
legs somewhat shaking still,
to overlook Brooklyn
at night.
Just could not find the Astrud Gilberto/Stan Getz verson of The Shadow of Your Smile, but George Benson is hopefully good enough for you:
http://youtu.be/E4Yr9sF6ZwQ
and here is Pablo Neruda in his own words:
http://www.poemasyversos.me/poetas-de-le...llero-solo
