Looking at the other side

Poetry

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I found this beautiful poem in one of those human-curated feeds on the Interweb.

Although it is wondrous in toto, the one line that resonates the most with me is:

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute.

When did we forget doing things for the sake of it?

#Daily #Poetry

My skull is getting full. Past and future, only woes. Lonely bastard, who's to blame? Suck it up, and try again.

#Daily #Poetry

Maybe you thought I would forget to give you flowers today.

But time-space has collapsed, and now you're hundreds of miles away.

Me typing means I relapsed, but I'll put it out anyway.

I'll take a long walk, try to find some pink flowers to stare at.

When I'm back, I'll prepare a nice dinner, open a bottle of red wine, and drink twice.

#Poetry

You don't need a special day, to go back to write every day.

Sit straight and write it down, fill the page with pink, blue and earthy tones.

Simply keep this in mind, your eternal muse won't let you down.

Your writing is full of hidden meanings, because you don't write for everyone.

But oh, today is a special day, if you don't know why, don't expect me to say.

#Poetry

Jaime Sabines escribe: «Porque las mejores palabras de amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada». Gran belleza y profundidad.

Quizá es porque soy un hombre de pocas palabras, o simplemente porque valoro el silencio, no lo sé.

El silencio es imposible de comunicar en el mundo digital.

Lo único que se puede comunicar es lo que se dice, pero no lo que se calla. Parece absurdo pensar en ello, pero no lo es.

¿Cómo puedo comunicar mi silencio en este blog?, ¿No escribiendo nada? Seguro pensarás que olvidé escribir, y no que estoy mirándote en silencio. ¿Cómo puedo mirarte sin decir nada?

Por más que queramos negarlo, el mundo digital es muy limitado. Lo cual no es bueno ni malo, es lo que es.

O como dicen en mi pueblo, «es lo que hay».

#Spanish #Poetry

Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un ala del silencio, el fuego tiene una mitad de frío.

Yo te amo para comenzar a amarte, para recomenzar el infinito y para no dejar de amarte nunca: por eso no te amo todavía.

Te amo y no te amo como si tuviera en mis manos las llaves de la dicha y un incierto destino desdichado.

Mi amor tiene dos vidas para amarte. Por eso te amo cuando no te amo y por eso te amo cuando te amo.

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Tags: #Spanish #Poetry

Poetry is impossible to translate. That's probably true for anything, but particularly relevant in poetry.

Layers of meaning are lost in translation. And in good poetry, subtleness is everything.

#Random #Poetry

Tags: #Software #Poetry

On my professional life, I have to deal with complex systems.

“Complex systems” is the fancy term for those systems with many interconnected components, where each component's behaviour is impacted by and, simultaneously, impacts other components' behaviour in a non-trivial way. The multiplicity of components and their interactions is what makes a system complex.

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