Favourite Reads
- Dianne ♥︎
- Feb 11, 2018
- 2 min read
I am a sucker for love poems, but Pablo Neruda’s work, I always come back to! I love love love Pablo Neruda’s collection of poems! I maybe read Love Poems a million times already. He always makes me happy, sad, and hopeful. I find passion, sensuality, and beauty that is found in his words. I suggest you have yourself a physical copy of Love Poems by him.. because it is just soul touching, soul shattering, and heart warming piece of greatness!
Pablo Neruda - one of the greatest major poets of the 20th century. He used caresses words in his work that you would think he was the best lover in the whole wide world. Though originally his work was in Spanish, this book of Love Poems, provided a Spanish and English translation (side by side) to speak to the universe.
Whenever I read this, I am always left floored by him. His poems just give me this beautiful feeling. It is hard to explain unless you read it!
Here’s an excerpt from my favourite poem..
Epithalamium p, 53-67
“…winter
will seek us, my love,
always
it will seek us, because we know it,
because we do not fear it,
because we have
with us
fire
forever,
we have
earth with us
forever,
spring with us
forever,
and when a leaf
falls
from the climbing vines,
you know, my love,
what name is written
on that leaf,
a name that is yours and mine,
our love name, a single
being, the arrow
that pierced winter,
the invincible love,
the fire of the days,
a leaf
that dropped upon my breast,
a leaf from the tree
of life
that made a nest and sang,
that put out roots,
that gave flowers and fruits.
And so you see, my love,
how I move
around the island,
around the world,
safe in the midst of spring,
crazy with light in the cold,
walking tranquil in the fire,
lifting your petal
weight in my arms
as if I had never walked
except with you, my heart,
as if I could not walk
except with you,
as if I could not sing
except when you sing.”
He was just divine! Right?!
I'm really ridiculously fond of his work.
I also love it 'coz it is a purse/pocketbook size, you can carry it everywhere, to work or wherever! A small thing, yet pretty little book, that I always treasure and come back to..
xx, Dianne
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