Triangles – Poem by Pablo Neruda Three triangles of birds crossed Over the enormous ocean which extended In winter like a green beast. Everything just lay there, the silence, The unfolding gray, the heavy light Of space, some land now and then. Over everything there was passing A flight And another flight Of dark birds, […]
You’Ll Find—it When You Try To Die – Poem by Emily Dickinson
You’Ll Find—it When You Try To Die – Poem by Emily Dickinson You’ll find—it when you try to die— The Easier to let go— For recollecting such as went— You could not spare—you know. And though their places somewhat filled— As did their Marble names With Moss—they never grew so full— You chose the newer […]
Some Beasts – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Some Beasts – Poem by Pablo Neruda t was the twilight of the iguana: From a rainbowing battlement, a tongue like a javelin lunging in verdure; an ant heap treading the jungle, monastic, on musical feet; the guanaco, oxygen-fine in the high places swarthed with distances, cobbling his feet into gold; the llama of scrupulous […]
Poor Creatures – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Poor Creatures – Poem by Pablo Neruda Poor Creatures What it takes on this planet, to make love to each other in peace. Everyone pries under your sheets, everyone interferes with your loving. They say terrible things about a man and a woman, who after much milling about, all sorts of compunctions, do something […]
The Tree Is Here, Still, In Pure Stone – Poem by Pablo Neruda
The Tree Is Here, Still, In Pure Stone – Poem by Pablo Neruda The tree is here, still, in pure stone, in deep evidence, in solid beauty, layered, through a hundred million years. Agate, cornelian, gemstone transmuted the timber and sap until damp corruptions fissured the giant’s trunk fusing a parallel being: the living leaves […]
The Insect – Poem by Pablo Neruda
The Insect – Poem by Pablo Neruda From your hips down to your feet I want to make a long journey. I am smaller than an insect. Over these hills I pass, hills the colour of oats, crossed with faint tracks that only I know, scorched centimetres, pale perspectives. Now here is a mountain. I […]
Woodpecker, The – Poem by Emily Dickinson
Woodpecker, The – Poem by Emily Dickinson His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,– A worm his utmost goal. Emily Dickinson Happy New Year Posts: Romantic Quotes For Him Romantic Quotes For Girlfriend Romantic Quotes For Her Romantic Messages Funny Romantic Quotes Deep Love […]