LOVE…Differently!
Written by Pam on January 2, 2015
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.