Pablo Neruda

Your Laughter

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take away…

3 weeks ago

What Spain Was Like

Spain was a taut, dry drum-headDaily beating a dull thudFlatlands and eagle's nestSilence lashed by the storm.How much, to the…

3 weeks ago

Water

Everything on the earth bristled, the bramblepricked and the green threadnibbled away, the petal fell, fallinguntil the only flower was…

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Triangles

Three triangles of birds crossedOver the enormous ocean which extendedIn winter like a green beast.Everything just lay there, the silence,The…

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Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,and the stars, blue,…

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The Weary One

The weary one, orphanof the masses, the self,the crushed one, the one made of concrete,the one without a country in…

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The Question

Love, a questionhas destroyed you.I have come back to youfrom thorny uncertainty.I want you straight asthe sword or the road.But…

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The Old Women of the Ocean

To the solemn sea the old women comeWith their shawls knotted around their necksWith their fragile feet cracking.They sit down…

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The Light Wraps You

The light wraps you in its mortal flame.Abstracted pale mourner, standing that wayagainst the old propellers of the twighlightthat revolves…

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The Dictators

An odor has remained among the sugarcane:a mixture of blood and body, a penetratingpetal that brings nausea.Between the coconut palms…

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