Pablo Neruda: “Death Alone”
Death Alone There are cemeteries that exist alone, graves full of bones without a sound, a heart moving through an endless tunnel that is dark, dark, dark. Like a shipwreck, […]
Death Alone There are cemeteries that exist alone, graves full of bones without a sound, a heart moving through an endless tunnel that is dark, dark, dark. Like a shipwreck, […]
Eternity Eternity Was never lost. We just didn’t know We just couldn’t see How to turn it into days, Into landscapes and into skies, Into words we said to others, […]
One Evening An eagle stoops from the archangel sky And you restore me Let the streetlights flicker, as hours go by Pray, pray for me The city is metal and […]
The Gypsy Woman The gypsy woman already could tell: The night had barred your life from mine. We said goodbye and threw her a dime And Hope leaped from the […]
A Hill of Stars Here the old ones receive their fire Here the fire once created the world At noon the rocks open up like fruits Water peels the eyelids […]
Two Bodies Two bodies face to face are sometimes two waves and the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face are sometimes two stones and the night is […]
We Have to Learn to Forgive You know, we have to learn to forgive. This is how we’ll be glad together. And if sadness mars the lives we live, Then […]
Death We know nothing about this sudden leaving that shares nothing with us. We have no way (neither astonishment nor joy nor grieving) to articulate Death, whom our masks convey […]