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Posted on June 30, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Pablo Neruda: The Potter

Your body has
a completeness, a softness
meant for me { … }

Posted on June 25, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Pablo Neruda – Don’t Leave Me

Don't leave me, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I,  I’ll be waiting for you, like at the station
when the trains are parked somewhere else { … }

Posted on June 20, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Ingeborg Bachman: In the Storm of Roses

In the storm of roses,
no matter where we turn,
night illumined by thorns, { … }

Posted on June 15, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Pablo Neruda – Sonnet XVII

I love you, not as if you were a crystal rose or topaz,
or carnations darting from the fire:
I love you as some veiled things are loved,
secretly, in the shadows of the soul. { … }

Posted on June 15, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Ingeborg Bachmann: Every Day

War no longer declared,
only continued. The extraordinary
becomes the everyday. { … }

Posted on June 10, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Pablo Neruda – Sonnet LXVI

I do not love you yet because I do love you I waver between loving and not loving you, Between waiting and not waiting for you. My heart swings between hot and cold. { … }

Posted on March 30, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Three O’Clock in the Morning

It's three o'clock in the morning,
you awakening, she still drowsy { … }

Posted on March 25, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

The Moon Calls

When the moon calls you to join her in her arms
To press her soft breasts against you
Your arm around her as you become one, { … }

Posted on March 20, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Night Silence

Dawn’s light seeking to obliterate silence
Night, overpowering Day’s cacophony
Loneliness reaching to touch silence
Darkness, singing the song of fire.{ … }

Posted on March 20, 2018December 30, 2019 by Bob

Night Unvoiced

light of silence
fades into words unspoken.
night unvoiced { … }

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