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Pablo Neruda
(July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973 / Parral / Chile)
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  Sonnet XI

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  I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.


Pablo Neruda

Submitted Date Friday, January 03, 2003



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Kentucky Refugee (12/30/2007 5:55:00 PM)
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Even in translation, Neruda has a gift for capturing the intense animal aspect of the physical longing of unrequited love. His ability to capture passion and desire wedded to a spiritual connection that transcends the body and enters the realm of the soul is unique.
Annamaria Jara (6/29/2006 11:29:00 AM)
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by far the best poem ever writen!
 
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