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_refugee_  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is Your Favorite Poem?

Speaking of Neruda, this is one of my favorite poems by him. I have it memorized and hanging on my wall in my bedroom.

Love- Pablo Neruda

    What's wrong with you, with us, 
    what's happening to us? 
    Ah our love is a harsh cord 
    that binds us wounding us 
    and if we want 
    to leave our wound, 
    to separate, 
    it makes a new knot for us and condemns us 
    to drain our blood and burn together.
    
    What's wrong with you? I look at you 
    and I find nothing in you but two eyes 
    like all eyes, a mouth 
    lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful, 
    a body just like those that have slipped 
    beneath my body without leaving any memory.
        
    And how empty you went through the world 
    like a wheat-colored jar 
    without air, without sound, without substance! 
    I vainly sought in you 
    depth for my arms 
    that dig, without cease, beneath the earth: 
    beneath your skin, beneath your eyes, 
    nothing, 
    beneath your double breast scarcely 
    raised 
    a current of crystalline order 
    that does not know why it flows singing. 
    Why, why, why, 
    my love, why?




humanodon  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a good one too!

On a darker note, did you see this? Neruda is being exhumed as there is suspicion of foul play in his death. I'm not sure why they're doing this at this particular time or what they hope to accomplish though.

_refugee_  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, I hadn't. That's really cool/weird/interesting, thanks for sharing!