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Category: Pablo Neruda

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 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 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. { … }

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