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    Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:19

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    We all know that Valentine's Day is a shameless attempt by card companies and flower shops to try and rake in a few more spondoolies (and why not) and that getting Valentines from a stalker or not getting cards at all can lead to all sorts of distress but still we persevere and aren't we all just a bit happier with a skip in our step when a loved one leaves us a softly-scented envelope, SWALK.

    Anyway, to celebrate the day we have 4 signed hardback copies of Carol Ann Duffy's Love Poems to give away to the 4 lucky customers to tell us who wrote the beautiful lines of poetry below. (It's a trick question as there are two authors but give us the name of the most recent)

    • "In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
    • and your form and colour are the way I love them.
    • You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips
    • and in your life my infinite dreams live."

    Entries by 15th February please.

    Competition now closed

    Posted by Adam Adam

    Categories: prize, competition, valentine, day, love, duffy

    Permalink: Valentines-Day

    Valentine's Day

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    Comments

    1. Robert D Lee's avatar Robert D Lee

      I have the recorded Neruda poems from Il Postino read out by various actors including Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe et al. Truly magnificent! I also have some originals spoken by Neruda himself. A great, great man.

      Posted Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:13 Mark as unsuitable?
    2. Michael Piels's avatar Michael Piels

      1st: Rabindranath Takhur ("The Gardner) 2nd: Pablo Neruda Would love to win this prize and give it to my girlfriend :)

      Posted Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:49 Mark as unsuitable?
    3. Barbara Giurastante's avatar Barbara Giurastante

      That's the reason why Valentine's day is special for me: it's my Birthday!!!! One should love everyday; don't wait for a silly date on the calendar... And read love poems everyday too! Ciao from Italia!!!!

      Posted Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:57 Mark as unsuitable?
    4. Emma Doyle's avatar Emma Doyle

      I got engaged at Christmas & feeling the love everywhere!

      Posted Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:07 Mark as unsuitable?
    5. Toni's avatar Toni

      Washing Day by CJ Dennis. A Classic Love Poem - persevere and you'll be rewarded. Yes this is a great Poem but Australians do not speak like this or spell this way the poet has taken considerable licence with the Australian language

      Posted Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:56 Mark as unsuitable?
    6. Kevin William Bolt's avatar Kevin William Bolt

      If you can read Australian (Strine) look for Washing Day by CJ Dennis. A Classic Love Poem - persevere and you'll be rewarded

      Posted Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:27 Mark as unsuitable?
    7. Kylie Watson's avatar Kylie Watson

      I love all Neruda's work but one of my very favourite is Sonnet XVII.

      Posted Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:23 Mark as unsuitable?
    8. Wilson Ramos Nuñez's avatar Wilson Ramos Nuñez

      Pablo Neruda is a Chilean poet, I am a chilean and love this books

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:06 Mark as unsuitable?
    9. ALBERTE GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ's avatar ALBERTE GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ

      A great poem of a great poet!! indeed!

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:02 Mark as unsuitable?
    10. Andrea Villagra Hernandez's avatar Andrea Villagra Hernandez

      I read Nerudad when I was very little. My dad used to read his poems for me. As a Chilean, I'm proud of this man...

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:48 Mark as unsuitable?
    11. Wendy Waller's avatar Wendy Waller

      A lovely book to own or give to a loved one

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:17 Mark as unsuitable?
    12. Randy Van Zwol's avatar Randy Van Zwol

      Is this really a competition? I looked at the poem and remembered Neruda again. I can still see the pictures he created in my mind after I read his ode to Macchu Picchu. Who doesn't want to go to Isla Negra just to sit on the shore and stare where he did? But, after I submitted my entry, just for the fun of it, I did a google search: the first hit was a site which had the poem up and Neruda's name under it. Have we really proved anything?

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:50 Mark as unsuitable?
    13. moira ferguson's avatar moira ferguson

      Is it possible that the reason some readers feel uneasy about Neruda's language is because it is not Neruda's, but a translator's. In Neruda's defence, I wonder if it could be an unfortunate translation. Neruda did not objectify women, nor did he think of women as property. He opposed owning property as he was a Marxist. i hope this helps. moira ferguson

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:38 Mark as unsuitable?
    14. Melinda Veitch's avatar Melinda Veitch

      I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way that this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. I think Pablo Neruda is one of the greatest poets who ever lived! My fiancee and I are getting married on the 14th April 2012 but have not yet written our wedding vows. I would love to win a signed copy of Carol Ann Duffy's book as I think it would really help Sam and I plan our vows. Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful prize. I would love to win :) Good luck to all. PS Pablo Neruda was the original poem author. Melinda

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:13 Mark as unsuitable?
    15. Raegan Adams's avatar Raegan Adams

      This is one of my favourite poems as my husband gave it to me on our 25th Wedding Anniversary in a frame.

      Posted Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:10 Mark as unsuitable?
    16. Larry Bailey's avatar Larry Bailey

      Light and easy, shows depth of love and emotions, always a good mix in a poem

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:32 Mark as unsuitable?
    17. John Lavitt's avatar John Lavitt

      Here is one of my own... love writing love poems! Strangely enough, my most romantic and elevated have always been about women I barely know. More of the fetish of love, the dream of love, than the reality of a relationship and the actual work. dreaming woke in sunlight, sand between my toes, dreaming and dreaming still, and woke in early afternoon, not the thick heads of early morning or the hard grumbling of late afternoon, just sudden overwhelming and beyond words droplets of small hope leaking this rush and wave of thrills, and beware the spill as my cup runneth over and over again, and dreaming and dreaming still in sunlight of you.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:01 Mark as unsuitable?
    18. Fidelma Mahon's avatar Fidelma Mahon

      Beautiful. Lots going on. Who hasn't been in love and felt jealous, possessive, half mad even - all the gritty stuff...but he doesn't own her; his voice is lost on the wind that hauls his widowed voice, she is the keeper of the land of her dreams and he is the outsider...(my reading) :)

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:47 Mark as unsuitable?
    19. Cristina's avatar Cristina

      i love the prize!

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:23 Mark as unsuitable?
    20. Chris's avatar Chris

      Rather than consider the writer to treat women as possessions as a previous comment suggests methinks the point has been overlooked. The poem suggests that the "woman" is actually the possessor and the feelings expressed throughout the verse admit this.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:30 Mark as unsuitable?
    21. Ignacio Salazar's avatar Ignacio Salazar

      ¡Que orgulloso me siento de ser Chileno! :)

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00 Mark as unsuitable?
    22. William Holden's avatar William Holden

      so nice to put love into words

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:29 Mark as unsuitable?
    23. Herminio Cerqueira's avatar Herminio Cerqueira

      tumi såndhar meghomala, tumi amar sadher sadhona, måmo sunno-gågonbihari ami apon moner madhuri mishae tomare korechi råchona tumi amari, tumi amari måmo åsim-gågonbihari. måmo hridåyoråktorage tåbo chåron diechi raNgia, oi sondhashåponbihari tåbo ådhår eNkechi sudhabishe mishe måmo sukhodukho bhNagia tumi amari, tumi amari måmo bijånojibånbihari. måmo moher såpån-ånjån tåbo nåyone diechi pårae oi mugdho nåyonobihari måmo songit tåbo ånge ånge diechi jårae jårae - tumi amari, tumi amari måmo jibånomårånåbihari.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:13 Mark as unsuitable?
    24. Stephen LIttle's avatar Stephen LIttle

      None

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:27 Mark as unsuitable?
    25. Linda DeChow's avatar Linda DeChow

      One of amy favorites, by the uncomparable William Shakespeare which begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." Boy, nobody could say it better! Sigh... I have this one in Love Poems and Sonnets by William Shakespeare and if I need a perk, I pick it up and just read something.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:52 Mark as unsuitable?
    26. aaron enrique diaz zuñiga's avatar aaron enrique diaz zuñiga

      muy buen poema!!

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:26 Mark as unsuitable?
    27. Irene's avatar Irene

      Am I the only one to think that wanting to OWN a person is not love? It would give me the creeps if a "lover" spoke to me in those terms. Couldn't a different poem have been chosen? Some poem that was about love and not possesion? The same author would say in a later poem, "She was mine. She was mine and now she's another guy's". So poets are free to treat women as posessions. Disgusting.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:23 Mark as unsuitable?
    28. Miguel Angel Varas Romeral's avatar Miguel Angel Varas Romeral

      En mi cielo al crepúsculo eres como una nube y tu color y forma son como yo los quiero. Eres mía, eres mía, mujer de labios dulces, y viven en tu vida mis infinitos sueños.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:02 Mark as unsuitable?
    29. Norma Lundberg's avatar Norma Lundberg

      First impulse: Neruda! maybe because I've just bought tickets for me and my beloved to attend a cabaret evening Feb. 3 to enjoy Patricia O'Callahan sing Neruda at Toronto Masque Theatre. So I took from my book shelves the lovely little volume, inspired by your query, and on this dull cold January morning, lost myself in W.S Merwin's translation of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, and have been transported by reading from the beginning. Then: number XVI, "In My Sky at Twilight" -- "a paraphrase of the 30th poem of Rabindranath Tagore's The Gardener." This little book is so beautifully illustrated and lovely to hold in my hands. As I'm learning bookbinding, and venturing into book arts, I now want to create a chapbook or small bound book of my own poems as a Valentine's Day gift to my beloved. I doubt that I'll "win" the contest, but it doesn't matter, because I already feel like a winner for the very idea of Duffy (another poet whose work I care so much for) and her book, and for having spent the past half hour with the Neruda book. NOW I'm intent on searching for a copy in Spanish, one of my mostly forgotten languages, and for a copy of the Tagore and for Duffy's Love Poems. Wonderful how books talk to each other, wonderful that the Book Depository keeps them communicating and travelling to book lovers.

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:53 Mark as unsuitable?
    30. MARY CARTER's avatar MARY CARTER

      GREAT POEM!!

      Posted Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:20 Mark as unsuitable?

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