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ODE TO WINE.

Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
wine with purple feet
or wine with topaz blood,
wine, starry child
of earth, wine, smooth
as a golden sword,
soft as lascivious velvet,
wine, spiral-seashelled
and full of wonder,
amorous,
marine;
never has one goblet contained you,
one song, one man,
you are choral, gregarious,
at the least, you must be shared.
At times you feed on mortal
memories;
your wave carries us
from tomb to tomb,
stonecutter of icy sepulchers,
and we weep transitory tears;
your glorious spring dress
is different,
blood rises through the shoots,
wind incites the day, nothing is left
of your immutable soul.

Wine stirs the spring, happiness
bursts through the earth like a plant,
walls crumble, and rocky cliffs,
chasms close, as song is born.
A jug of wine, and thou beside me
in the wilderness,
sang the ancient poet.
Let the wine pitcher
add to the kiss of love its own.

My darling, suddenly
the line of your hip
becomes the brimming curve
of the wine goblet,
your breast is the grape cluster,
your nipples are the grapes,
the gleam of spirits lights your hair,
and your navel is a chaste seal
stamped on the vessel of your belly,
your love an inexhaustible
cascade of wine,
light that illuminates my senses,
the earthly splendor of life.

But you are more than love,
the fiery kiss,
the heat of fire,
more than the wine of life;
you are the community of man,
translucency,
chorus of discipline,
abundance of flowers.
I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
Drink it,
and remember in every
drop of gold,
in every topaz glass,
in every purple ladle,
that autumn labored
to fill the vessel with wine;
and in the ritual of his office,
let the simple man remember
to think of the soil and of his duty,
to propagate the canticle of the wine.

Neruda

THANK YOU, NERUDA IS SOMEONE SPECIAL.

Thank you from me too. I can imagine how time consuming carefully choosing just the right poetry for your poets corner. I am greatful and wanted to let you know.

Thank you Rushmore I really appreciate your kind words.

It is actually the most self-indulgent way to blame time
for flying by.....exploring the perfect works of Neruda..heaven!

Bless you.