for my reference: neruda, lorca, williams;

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Just a few things I need to memorize by Saturday. Still need one more. Hopefully I can come up with something soon. Will dig through my books.

Pablo Neruda
from The Book of Questions

III.

Tell me, is the rose naked
Or is that her only dress?

Why do trees conceal
The splendor of their roots?

Who hears the regrets
Of the thieving automobile?

Is there anything in the world sadder
Than a train standing in the rain?

Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/pablo_neruda_2004_9.pdf

Federico Garcia Lorca
Qasida of the Rose

The rose
was not looking for the dawn:
almost eternal on its stem
it looked for something else.

The rose
was not looking for science or shadow:
confine of flesh and dream
it looked for something else.

The rose
was not looking for the rose.
Through the sky, immobile,
it looked for something else.

Source: Penguin Classics. Federico Garcia Lorca, Selected Poems: "The Tamarit Divan".

William Carlos Williams
This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Source: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535