Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

‘perhaps Not To Be Is To Be Without Your Being.’

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,without your going, that cuts noon lightlike a blue flower, without your passinglater through fog and..

© Pablo Neruda

Love

What's wrong with you, with us,what's happening to us?Ah our love is a harsh cordthat binds us wounding usand if we wantto leave our wound,to..

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Brown And Agile Child

Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruitAnd ripens the grain and twists the seaweedHas made your happy body and your luminous eyesAnd..

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Always

I am not jealousof what came before me.Come with a manon your shoulders,come with a hundred men in your hair,come with a thousand men between your..

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Poetry

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don't know how or..

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Canto Xii From The Heights Of Macchu Picchu

Arise to birth with me, my brother.Give me your hand out of the depthssown by your sorrows.You will not return from these stone fastnesses.You will..

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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..

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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..

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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..

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Fable Of The Mermaid And The Drunks

All those men were there inside,when she came in totally naked.They had been drinking: they began to spit.Newly come from the river, she knew..

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‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?What..

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Nothing But Death

There are cemeteries that are lonely,graves full of bones that do not make a sound,the heart moving through a tunnel,in it darkness, darkness..

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Your Feet

When I cannot look at your faceI look at your feet.Your feet of arched bone,your hard little feet.I know that they support you,and that your sweet..

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Xvii (I Do Not Love You...)

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be..

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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..

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Enigmas

You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there withhis golden feet?I reply, the ocean knows this.You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its..

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A Lemon

Out of lemon flowersloosedon the moonlight, love'slashed and insatiableessences,sodden with fragrance,the lemon tree's yellowemerges,the lemonsmove..

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And Because Love Battles

And because love battlesnot only in its burning agriculturesbut also in the mouth of men and women,I will finish off by taking the path awayto those..

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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 spatteringits words and drilling them..

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Drunk As Drunk

Translated from the Spanish by Christopher LogueDrunk as drunk on turpentineFrom your open kisses,Your wet body wedgedBetween my wet body and the..

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From – Twenty Poems Of Love

I can write the saddest lines tonight.Write for example: ‘The night is fracturedand they shiver, blue, those stars, in the distance’The night wind..

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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..

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.No one saw us this evening hand in handwhile the blue night dropped on the world.I have seen from my windowthe fiesta..

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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..

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Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars shiver in the distance.'The night wind revolves in..

© Pablo Neruda