love poems...

[salixbabylon]

From fab_feb_friends: Oh to write an ode! Today's activity is poetry. Post a poem dedicated to your f-list, or write one of your own. The style of poetry is up to you - sonnet, Irish haiku (TM) missyjack , couplet, free verse. Express your love any way you know how.

I'm not really in a poetry-writing mood, but this is one of my favorite poems:

In My Sky at Twilight

~ Pablo Neruda

In my sky at twilight you are a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.
You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips
and in your life my infinite dreams live.

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet.
My sour wine is sweeter on your lips,
oh reaper of my evening song,
how solitary dreams believe you to be mine!

You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon's
wind, and the wind hauls on my widowed voice.
Huntress of the depths of my eyes, your plunder
stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

You are taken in the net of my music, my love,
and my nets of music are wide as the sky.
My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.