Your Feet – Poem by Pablo Neruda When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them. Your waist and your breasts, the doubled purple of your nipples, the sockets […]
Category: Pablo Neruda
Xvii (I Do Not Love You…) – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Xvii (I Do Not Love You…) – Poem by Pablo Neruda I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as […]
Your Laughter – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Your Laughter – Poem by Pablo Neruda Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance flower that you pluck, the water that suddenly bursts forth in joy, the sudden wave of silver born in you. My […]
Your Hands – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Your Hands – Poem by Pablo Neruda When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight? Why did they stop at my lips, so suddenly, why do I know them, as if once before, I have touched them, as if, before being, they travelled my forehead, my waist? Their smoothness […]
Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon – Poem by Pablo Neruda Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? What primal night does Man touch with his senses? Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars, through suffocating air, […]
In The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones – Poem by Pablo Neruda
In The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones – Poem by Pablo Neruda In the wave-strike over unquiet stones the brightness bursts and bears the rose and the ring of water contracts to a cluster to one drop of azure brine that falls. O magnolia radiance breaking in spume, magnetic voyager whose death flowers and returns, eternal, […]
March Days Return With Their Covert Light – Poem by Pablo Neruda
March Days Return With Their Covert Light – Poem by Pablo Neruda March days return with their covert light, and huge fish swim through the sky, vague earthly vapours progress in secret, things slip to silence one by one. Through fortuity, at this crisis of errant skies, you reunite the lives of the sea to […]