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, […]
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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 […]
Perhaps Not To Be Is To Be Without Your Being – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Perhaps Not To Be Is To Be Without Your Being – Poem by Pablo Neruda Perhaps not to be is to be without your being, without your going, that cuts noon light like a blue flower, without your passing later through fog and stones, without the torch you lift in your hand that others may […]
A Dog Has Died – Poem by Pablo Neruda
A Dog Has Died – Poem by Pablo Neruda A Dog Has Died My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I’ll join him right there, but now he’s gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose, and I, the materialist, […]
A Lemon – Poem by Pablo Neruda
A Lemon – Poem by Pablo Neruda A Lemon Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight, love’s lashed and insatiable essences, sodden with fragrance, the lemon tree’s yellow emerges, the lemons move down from the tree’s planetarium Delicate merchandise! The harbors are big with it- bazaars for the light and the barbarous gold. We […]
A Song Of Despair – Poem by Pablo Neruda
A Song Of Despair – Poem by Pablo Neruda A Song Of Despair The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea. Deserted like the wharves at dawn. It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one! Cold flower heads are raining over my heart. […]