I am learning that many of my KokoBo families love poetry – so each week I will blog some of my favorite poems.  Pablo Neruda is a poet whose poetry runs deep and has touched many of us in so many different ways.

Below are two love poems, one by Pablo Neruda and the other poem is a beautiful piece – but simply just that – as I cannot locate the author or the title – but nevertheless this poem is as beautiful as meaningful.    Cheers, Pam :*)

One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII

By  Pablo Neruda

Translated By Mark Eisner

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,

or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:

I love you as one loves certain obscure things,

secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries

the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,

and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose

from the earth lives dimly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,

I love you directly without problems or pride:

I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,

except in this form in which I am not nor are you,

so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,

so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

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Author Unknown

To walk or talk or just to stand

To watch the trees and all the land

To see a bud, a twig, a branch

To watch a brook and know no distance

To have the things given by God

To love them all, to love them hard

To love and be loved by someone true

To love and be just loved by you.

The pups have gone through an amazing journey inside the womb and once the puppies join us, they need to continue that remarkable journey without the benefits of sight or sound – they only have that ‘nose’ that ‘amazing nose’ that helps them find nourishment and thrive! I have provided a couple recent pictures of what amazement has yet to come– the first picture is of Koko, who as you can see will do anything – at .. any .. length for us, (just love the dreadlocks!) and is just patiently waiting for the whelping to start! The second picture is for you to figure out how many puppy skeletons there are! Koko’s whelping begins early October! I have whelped – many – many litters, and I can honestly say that I look forward to each litter with baited breath and that grateful – humbling feeling.