Shane Koyczan on Snap Judgment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y2VNDetsjg

If You Forget Me

If You Forget Me

Pablo Neruda

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail

toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,

if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly

you forget me

do not look for me,

for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,

the wind of banners

that passes through my life,

and you decide

to leave me at the shore

of the heart where I have roots,

remember

that on that day,

at that hour,

I shall lift my arms

and my roots will set off

to seek another land.

But

if each day,

each hour,

you feel that you are destined for me

with implacable sweetness,

if each day a flower

climbs up to your lips to seek me,

ah my love, ah my own,

in me all that fire is repeated,

in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,

my love feeds on your love, beloved,

and as long as you live it will be in your arms

without leaving mine.

This is one of my favorite poems from my poetry project! I hope you all like it!

I Don't Miss It - Tracy K. Smith

Video by Innes MacKenzie, Kaylee Paladino, John Shannon

The Gods, by Mary Jo Salter - Visual Representation

Rape Joke Video

Here is Jenny and my video! The poem is titled Rape Joke by Patricia Lockwood. Also, you might have to adjust the volume as you watch it (I was struggling to get it to all sound the same).

Here is a link to the higher quality youtube version. Can't figure out why it's showing as portrait instead of landscape.

Enjoy!