A Valentine's Day book-Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Despair

• care bear

  7 Feb 05, 08:30

  
  
  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
  by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Jan Thompson Dicks, W. S. Merwin
  
  First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet’s most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet.
  
  Not sure you'll like it? take the one-minute neruda test:
  "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." there, how'd that feel? good, great, fantastic? plenty more where that came from....
  
  its a beautiful gift for a lover. Perfect Valentine's Day gift or some other romantic moment as well. Draw a bath for them, light a candle, pour some wine, and sit and read them some of these often torrid poems to each other... You will thank me later! MUCH later!
  
• care bear

  7 Feb 05, 08:31

  One of my favourites............................
  
  "Body of a Woman"
  By Pablo Neruda
  
  Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
  you look like a world, lying in surrender.
  My rough peasant's body digs in you
  and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.
  
  I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,
  and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion.
  To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
  like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.
  
  But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
  Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
  Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!
  Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!
  
  Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
  My thirst, my boudnless desire, my shifting road!
  Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows
  and weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
  
• care bear

  7 Feb 05, 22:16

  so romantic........................