Pablo Neruda's Still Another Day Poem #1

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Ms. Haiku
Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
edited January 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Today is that day, the day that carried
a desperate light that since has died.
Don't let the squatters know:
let's keep it all between us,
day, between your bell
and my secret.

Today is dead winter in the forgotten land
that comes to visit me, with a cross on the map
and a volcano in the snow, to return to me,
to return again the water
fallen on the roof of my childhood.
Today when the sun began with its shafts
to tell the story, so clear, so old,
the slanting rain fell like a sword,
the rain my heard heart welcomes.

You, my love, still asleep in August,
my queen, my woman, my vastness, my geography,
kiss of mud, the carbon-coated zither,
you, vestment of my persistent song,
today you are reborn again and with the sky's
black water confuse me and compel me:
I must renew my bones in your kingdom,
I must still uncloud my earthly duties.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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  • Ana Claudia
    Ana Claudia Posts: 23
    Beautiful!
    Ana
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    #6

    Pardon me, if when I want
    to tell the story of my life
    it's the land I talk about.
    This is the land.
    It grows in your blood
    and you grow.
    If it dies in your blood
    you die out.



    I thought these poems were appropriate given the tragedy in West Virginia.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ana Claudia
    Ana Claudia Posts: 23
    I think they are appropriate!
    (sorry, I have difficults sometimes, I never know if after I wrote if I did it right)
    Ana
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Am I going to have to be the first one to quote the Simpsons?

    "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda"
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but if not, go ahead an post some of his works. They are great! I'll include a sonnet today in the sonnet thread.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    XVII

    The September night was trembling
    I carried in my clothes
    the sadness of the train that carried me
    across the provinces one by one:
    I was that distant being
    sickened by the carbon fumes
    of the locomotive.
    I didn't exist yet.
    I had something to discover.
    My poetry isolated me
    and joined me to everyone.
    That night I would
    have declared Spring.
    A sad beggar,
    I was made to untie the vestment
    of the naked night.
    I trembled reading my song before two thousand
    uneven ears.
    The night burned
    with all the dark fire
    that multiplied in the city,
    in the urgent need of contact.

    Did the loneliness die that night?
    Or was I born then, of my solitude?
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • yerrey
    yerrey Posts: 183
    pablo's great

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