What is your favorite pablo neruda poem
By Mathurin
@Mathurin (491)
Philippines
November 15, 2007 8:10am CST
i love pablo neruda, i love his works
i hope i can understand spanish so i can really feel all what he writes
the first poem i read is 'tonight i can write'
because i heard it first from sixpence none the richer
they used it on their song puedo escribir
il postino contains 15 poems
and i love all of them
recently, i have read another poem by pablo neruda
and i believe right now
it is my favorite
its title is if you forget me...
=)
haaaay i love poems
2 responses
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
24 Feb 09
I love Pablo Neruda. even though, I haven't read for long, he is one of my favorites.
If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
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.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
Pablo Neruda
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@Nerophile (72)
• United States
16 Nov 07
It has been so long since I've read anything by Pablo Neruda. I do remember really enjoying his poems though. They are very fluid and lyrical evoking so much emotion that they are almost musical without the music of course. They are so vivid that while reading you feel transported to that shore, or space in time that he is writing about. The most amazing thing about his imagery is that he accomplishes so much with so few words. But then that is the nature of poetry.
The book of poems that I have is printed in both Spanish and English with the English appearing on the opposite page to the Spanish. This is very helpful because I do not read Spanish well. I don't really get the full meaning without checking the English version. When I do, I feel some of the meaning or the feeling has been lost in the English version. Spanish is such a beautiful language even when not in the hands of a master poet
This is a reminder for me to revisit his wonderful poems. Thank you.