Literature & poetry

Pablo Neruda: Lost In The Forest Pablo Neruda: Lost In The Forest Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips: maybe it was the voice of the rain crying, a cracked bell, or a torn heart. Something from far off …

Pablo Neruda: Naked You Are As Simple As One Of Your Hands Pablo Neruda: Naked You Are As Simple As One Of Your Hands Naked, you are simple as one of your hands, Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round: You have moonlines, applepathways: Naked, you are slender as a naked grain …

Pablo Neruda: Ode To The Artichoke Pablo Neruda: Ode To The Artichoke The artichoke With a tender heart Dressed up like a warrior, Standing at attention, it built A small helmet Under its scales It remained Unshakeable, By its side The crazy vegetables Uncurled Their tendrills and leaf-crowns, Throbbing bulbs, …

Pablo Neruda: Entrance Of The Rivers Pablo Neruda: Entrance Of The Rivers Beloved of the rivers,beset By azure water and transparent drops, Like a tree of veins your spectre Of dark goddess biting apples: And then awakening naked To be tattoed by the rivers, And in the wet heights your …

Pablo Neruda: Ode To Bird Watching Pablo Neruda: Ode To Bird Watching Now Let’s look for birds! The tall iron branches in the forest, The dense fertility on the ground. The world is wet. A dewdrop or raindrop shines, a diminutive star among the leaves. The morning time mother earth …

Pablo Neruda: Algunas Bestias Pablo Neruda: Algunas Bestias Era el crepúsculo de la iguana. Desde la arcoirisada crestería su leengua como un dardo se hundía en la verdura, el hormiguero monacal pisaba con melodioso pie la selva, el guanaco fino como el oxigeno en las anchas alturas pardas iba calzando …

Pablo Neruda: Castro Alves From Brazil Pablo Neruda: Castro Alves From Brazil Castro Alves from Brazil, for whom did you sing? Did you sing for the flower? For the water whose beauty whispered words to the stones? Did you sing to the eyes, to the torn profile of the woman …

Pablo Neruda: Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love Pablo Neruda: Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: …

Pablo Neruda: Enigma With Flower Pablo Neruda: Enigma With Flower Victory. It has come late, I had not learnt how to arrive, like the lily, at will, the white figure, that pierces the motionless eternity of earth, pushing at clear, faint, form, till the hour strikes: that clay, with a …