(12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973 / Parral / Chile)

poet Pablo Neruda
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Drunk as Drunk

Translated from the Spanish by Christopher Logue

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003


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  • Walter Schultz (4/16/2010 8:02:00 AM)

    Hola, Pablo,
    ¡Usted es un poeta excelente!
    Hasta luego.

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  • Andrew Moss (2/17/2010 4:38:00 PM)

    Amazing, great example of why Neruda is my favourite poet. But why do people leave comments on all his poems which seem to imply that they are speaking directly to him, or comments which are addressed to him:
    'Hola Pablo,
    Your an excellent poet. Well done.
    Hasta Luego'
    He's dead. Shut up

    5 person liked.
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  • Juniper March (10/7/2009 4:38:00 AM)

    Wish I knew you, can't get enough

    3 person liked.
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  • Amie-Lee ...... (10/22/2008 6:07:00 PM)

    I love it, definatly a good write

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  • Ryan Heap (3/9/2008 4:33:00 PM)

    you would be drunk as drunk on turpentine not to give this poem a 10

    7 person liked.
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  • Dr.subhendu Kar (10/21/2007 1:21:00 PM)

    mystically unique poem coursed through powerful metaphors embracing the search continnum, irrestibly peeling the eyes.............

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  • Glenelyn Azurin (6/26/2007 9:24:00 PM)

    This poem's marvelously made, that's hot...

    3 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.
  • john tiong chunghoo (7/1/2006 9:35:00 AM)

    after sailing
    through this land
    called man
    we wonder where
    we would be
    going to next

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  • Victoria Ritchie (6/15/2006 7:22:00 AM)

    Hola Pablo,
    Your an excellent poet. Well done.
    Hasta Luego
    Victoria

    2 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.
  • ***** ********* (11/8/2005 3:29:00 AM)

    Moi Bien. After I read this, I crossed my legs! Tai

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