"I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close."
Pablo Neruda (Love sonnet XVII)
I will do anything for a man that can quote PN to me and carry it off!! Just wanted to open a post where you can post your chosen poems...So feel free to post or not to post. Thanks for dropping by...🙂
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land.
But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine."
I wrote this poem appx 15 yrs ago.. and it still remains one of my favorites..i share it with all of you and hope that if it strikes a chord in your hearts than the dialogue has done it's job..
Like pieces of a puzzle that won't interlock yet attracted to each other like the tick to the tock Different Personalities clinging on breathlessly Reaching for each other like the sand to the sea.
Let us attempt to mold our puzzle pieces to fit side by side if the pieces do not fit it is not to say we have not tried time ahead will call us to go our separate ways We'll think of each other and meet in future days
This puzzle fits together as in life's reality Though we may not be together hand in heart we'll always be
thank you all for your comments they were great and thoughtful and no unfortunately i stopped writing a long time ago. but now is the time to renew again. I have @10 poems i have written in the past and would like published nothing fancy but from my soul.. NOW i look forward to reading some submissions from all of you. i bid adieu as is need to wake up tommorow morning quite early.
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"
LOL,now that you point it out I can see the poems that I have posted so far can be considered a bit dark...I'm kinda addicted to PN and Sylvia Plath...and neither of them can be called cheerful...I think I'll look for something cheerful next time I post...🙂
Also, I would love to read more of your poems if you don't mind posting them here...
melusine , dont get me wrong, dark poems can and do bring out what is within us and push out through verse what we sometimes cannot verbally do ourselves. I am not implying at all that is what your doin.
Remember dark poems have their beauty and reason for being as well
I love sylvia plath as well.. although I admit i am not well versed on her poems.
This was written by me. I love to write love poems, trying to get them published read in a club, etc. I hope everyone enjoy
My Heart was once empty I had no special friend to love No one to count on No one to hug
Since I met you, My heart has been filled With Joy and Excitement Just being near you
Your voice is all I need To fill my heart and soul It creates a smile a laughter That I once enjoyed
And when we come together I am full of anticipation For my special friend that has Crossed my path once again
I am glad I did not know then What I know now That a man from my past Could bring back my smile
His sexy smile His warm hugs His soft kisses Is just the beginning of what I?ve been missing
His sexy voice I hear When we are making Love Feels me with passion and excitement I want him more and more
His conversation His Intelligent His need to be honest His communication His forgiveness And how he looks at life Helps me to look at my life And how I want to live it
I can?t help but be into you More and more each day Because you have given me a reason To show you a side of my that has rarely existed
A women who is sincere and want a special friend to love
A women who knows how to show unconditional love
Through friendship, Honesty, Patients and Trust I know with these factors we?ll have something special Between the both of us
An unconditional friendship that will last forever And if it goes further I will not hesitate I would jump at the chance Because I would have found my soulmate.
Well, it so happens that I was asked my permission to dedicate 2 whole pages to me in an upcoming book called The International Who's Who of Poetry with one of the pages being my poem and the other page being a biography of me. Woohoo! (Hopefully it's n
Have been away for a few days & haven't checked in. I am going to the local "book mine" tomorrow & will look for your suggestion. Sounds like something I'd enjoy! For me, besides dialogue, it's all about the characters & how the author describes them. Wil
Freedom... Pure naked freedom. It's the loss of all inhibitions. It's like stipping off all your clothes and running bare bottomed through the desert durring a lightning storm, sand burning the soles of your feet and sweat and rain water running down your
I just thought like saying I finally got my prize for winning third place and second runner up for this stupid literature contest at school... I won ten bucks though. Yay! Ten bucks... Well, I at least had lunch money this way... I really went over board
First you must be able to spell. NOT I have always wanted to, I did write a play once and it was proformed. Its kind of like Steve Wright said I would kill for a nobel peace prize.
I think that I shall never see a beer as lovely as a tree the brew that joe's pub has on tap with golden base and fomey cap The golden brew I drink all day until my memory melts away poems are made by fools like me but only
"I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close."
Pablo Neruda
(Love sonnet XVII)
I will do anything for a man that can quote PN to me and carry it off!!
Just wanted to open a post where you can post your chosen poems...So feel
free to post or not to post. Thanks for dropping by...🙂