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.

Comments

[silkmoth101.livejournal.com]

Oh I love Pablo Neruda! And what a wonderful choice for your flist! *hugs*

[ladykatiewench.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! I LOVE it!!

[londinensa.livejournal.com]

Pablo ♥

though it is wierd to read him in english

You know I really should go to La Sebastiana if I go to Valparaiso this year...

[bitterbird.livejournal.com]

aww awesome <3

[megyal]

*SNUGS TIGHT*

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

:) Maybe tomorrow I'll post another one. *hug*

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

*smooches*

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I wish I could understand his poems in Spanish... they sound so beautiful, and then in English the words are so moving. I wish I could have that together. :)

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

*hugs* :)

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

First the romance, then the porn. ;)

[megyal]

lol, that sounds like a perfect plan to me.