Pablo Neruda: If You Forget Me

Pablo Neruda breaks my heart in the best way. I can’t pick a favorite, but If You Forget Me is up there. His work is best read in Spanish as he wrote it, there is something that gets lost in translation but the work is still beautiful nonetheless in English. He evokes emotion with his words and I dip into my little Neruda collection from time to time just to savor it.

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.
-read the poem in its entirety here

What do you think of this one?

April is National Poetry Month, follow this link for more.

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Not So Wordless Wednesday

Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart….
-Pablo Neruda

I took this photo with my Canon Rebel recently. This was just after it had been raining for most of the morning. It turned out to be a gorgeous Fall day once the sun appeared.

Read the poem in its entirety by following this link.

Happy Thanksgiving and have a great rest of the week everyone! xo

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A little Neruda…

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it’s you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly…..
-Pablo Neruda

Read the poem in full by clicking here…

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I have always found the way Neruda expressed both passion and sadness through his poetry to be unparalleled.
I cannot pick just one of his poems as a favorite, but this one is among my top five. I do prefer to read his verses in Spanish, as I find there is just something lost in translation but reading them in English you can still get the effect of the beauty and pain of his words.

In this one I like the way he moves from love to hate. When you think about, it there is a fine line between the two.

Enjoy your week 🙂

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.
-Pablo Neruda

Being a hopeless romantic you know I just had to post a little something on Valentine’s Day. Read the rest of the poem by clicking here. Enjoy your day.

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Wordless Wednesday

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
-Pablo Neruda

I took the above photo this month after a snowstorm. I love how quiet and peaceful it was on that day.
The excerpt above is from a poem called I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by the incomparable Pablo Neruda. Read it in its entirety by clicking here.

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