Pablo Neruda: Brown And Agile Child

Pablo Neruda: Brown And Agile Child Pablo Neruda: Brown And Agile Child Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed Has made your happy body and your luminous eyes And given your mouth the smile of water. A black and …

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Pablo Neruda: The Saddest Poem

Pablo Neruda: The Saddest Poem Pablo Neruda: The Saddest Poem I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest …

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Pablo Neruda: Gentleman Alone

Pablo Neruda: Gentleman Alone Pablo Neruda: Gentleman Alone The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours’ pregnant, And the hoarse tomcats that cross my garden at night, Like a collar of palpitating sexual oysters Surround my solitary home, Enemies …

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Pablo Neruda: Poetry

Pablo Neruda: Poetry Pablo Neruda: Poetry And it was at that age … Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when, no they were not voices, they were not words, nor …

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Pablo Neruda: Your Feet

Pablo Neruda: Your Feet Pablo Neruda: Your Feet 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 …

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Pablo Neruda: A Lemon

Pablo Neruda: A Lemon 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 …

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