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Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973 / Parral / Chile)
Poems by Pablo Neruda : 1 / 140
‘Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’
Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.
Pablo Neruda
Submitted: Monday, March 22, 2010
Edited: Sunday, June 19, 2011
Poems by Pablo Neruda : 1 / 140
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Only Neruda could write this only Neruda brilliant
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? .......
yet untrodden path of secrets fills apple to fall,
gravity ramifies anchoring into deep of river,
gratified heart to emblazon by light of Venus gloss
oh we are just entwined in between floss of hold..................most thought provoking write i have ever read,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? .......
yet untrodden path of secrets fills apple to fall,
gravity ramifies anchoring into deep of river,
gratified heart to emblazon by light of Venus gloss
oh we are just entwined in between floss of hold..................most thought provoking write i have ever read,
Pablo gives a new dimension to poetry.Awesome truly.
wow hats off..not simply do we consider him one of the best
Two bodies are destoried by one sweetness, one honey, one lust, one world, one....They are also born from the same....
Is it possible that Neruda was not merely an earth bound man? Is it truly illogical to dream that he visted us from another time, dimension, planet? It astounds me that Neruda can so eloquently reach into a world so utterly unknown to his gender & coax out the tiny, sensual secrets women bury so deeply into their heart. So deeply, that even they may not be aware of them or perhaps admit to.....until they read his verse and melt into a spent puddle of tears & pure happiness. It's as though Neruda sees into the very DNA of woman and knows the secrets God tenderly placed there. Simply, Neruda sees the true way women yearn to be treasured and loved. Amazing!
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@ Tearle Green...
Friend, I wonder if you understand what you're talking about in your acquisition
to Kevin Straw? I suggest that your commentary goes (quite) beyond your
assumed advice. I think you should read your posts through a few times, maybe
then you'd see... that ugly and invidious inference?
Neruda's quasi-abstract discription is (too) intended distant any real interpretation,
that was his (deceptive) tool in feigned brilliance.
80% pretense and, maybe,20% talent, maybe.
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Beautiful thoughts taking us on a journey through the passionate stages of love, great imagery and feelings
Absolutely brilliant, romance romanticised, i am in love with this poem...wonderful imagery n comparison...wow!