I heart Pablo Neruda
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
4 Comments:
neruda, and his poetry can be reviewed further at http://www.geocities.com/psbabusyed/neruda.html
I love the poetry you're sharing...I feel happier just for the reading.
Ah, beautemous Neruuuudah... I helped put up a poetry workshop for teenage girls a few years back and we were privileged to have Wanda Coleman read from both her own and Neruda's work. That's how she said his name - Neruuuudah, like a sigh.
You're doing this for me, right, knowing that I need some sappy poetry to write on an anniversary card for J? Fifteen years, baby, as of tomorrow!
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