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7/21/2004: Neruda apples

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How ya like them apples? It's four tons of them, in red and green, forming a 52-foot wide heart to celebrate Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, born 100 years ago July 12th.

what a waste of apples! :corn: i could have eaten them... or the poor people in china...

Why Apples? Did he write odeous poetry about Granny Smiths? Maybe "an apple a day" gets you to 100 years old? Oh well, happy birthday Pablo.

That doesn't look like a lot of area, to make up four tons of apple.

Maybe they're just particularly dense apples.

Quote:

Pablo Neruda
<center>Tonight I Write (the saddest lines)
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.</center> <center>Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."</center> <center>The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.</center> <center>I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.</center> <center>On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.</center> <center>She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?</center> <center>I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.</center> <center>To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.</center> <center>What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.</center> <center>That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.</center> <center>As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.</center> <center>The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.</center> <center>I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.</center> <center>Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.</center> <center>I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.</center> <center>Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.</center> Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

that was written in spanish, and the translation has changed a bit from what i remember.

wow, that's beautiful. thanks LJ.

BTW, figure about 3 apples per pound, that's 24,000 apples, give or take. I think they're fudging, though. I counted only 17,894, but the left bit of the picture is cut off... Time for Wapner...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guess

what a waste of apples! :corn: i could have eaten them... or the poor people in china...

Why would you want to eat poor chinese people?

They taste good in a light apple glaze?

(I don't know, I gave up poor chinese people for Lent....haven't picked the habit up again)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guess

what a waste of apples! :corn: i could have eaten them... or the poor people in china...

why would you want to eat the chinese? what have they done to you? :eek:

Usually when people play with food, it's a mess, but this looks pretty nice.

LJ--are you an lover of poetry? Thank you for sharing that--I really enjoyed it! Is this poet a favorite of yours? I've never heard of him (no big shocker there) but my interest is piqued now. Thanks again!!

actually, i do appreciate poetry, but that poem is not a favorite of mine, as much as it is/was a favorite of an ex's. from high school. she used to write snatches of it on my notebooks, quote it in love letters, etc. i knew i recognized the name, but i had to google him to make the connection. there was a different translation back then that flowed a little better. in english, anyway. but, yeah, i like it. it's sad.

I like this picture a bit better. What do you think?

Sorry, dar512, it's all just apples and oranges to me...