Pablo Neruda: Cat’s Dream

Pablo Neruda: Cat’s Dream Pablo Neruda: Cat’s Dream How neatly a cat sleeps, sleeps with its paws and its posture, sleeps with its wicked claws, and with its unfeeling blood, sleeps with all the rings- a series of burnt circles- which have formed the odd geology of its sand-colored tail. …

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Pablo Neruda: I’M Explaining A Few Things

Pablo Neruda: I’M Explaining A Few Things Pablo Neruda: I’M Explaining A Few Things You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs? and the poppy-petalled metaphysics? and the rain repeatedly spattering its words and drilling them full of apertures and birds? I’ll tell you all the news. I …

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Pablo Neruda: And Because Love Battles

Pablo Neruda: And Because Love Battles Pablo Neruda: And Because Love Battles And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want …

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Pablo Neruda: Twenty Poems Of Love

Pablo Neruda: Twenty Poems Of Love Pablo Neruda: Twenty Poems Of Love I can write the saddest lines tonight. Write for example: ‘The night is fractured and they shiver, blue, those stars, in the distance’ The night wind turns in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest lines …

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Pablo Neruda: Clenched Soul

Pablo Neruda: Clenched Soul Pablo Neruda: Clenched Soul We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world. I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops. Sometimes a piece of …

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Pablo Neruda: Bird

Pablo Neruda: Bird Pablo Neruda: Bird It was passed from one bird to another, the whole gift of the day. The day went from flute to flute, went dressed in vegetation, in flights which opened a tunnel through the wind would pass to where birds were breaking open the dense …

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Pablo Neruda: A Song Of Despair

Pablo Neruda: A Song Of Despair 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 …

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Pablo Neruda: A Dog Has Died

Pablo Neruda: A Dog Has Died 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, …

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