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Love Sonnet LXXIX

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
like a double drum in the forest, pounding
against the thick wall of wet leaves.

Night travel: black flame of sleep
that snips the threads of the earth's grapes,
punctual as a headlong train that would haul
shadows and cold rocks, endlessly.

Because of this, Love, tie me to a purer motion,
to the constancy that beats in your chest
with the wings of a swan underwater,

So that our sleep might answer all the sky's
starry questions with a single key,
with a single door the shadows had closed.


Pablo Neruda

I have a soft spot for this divine poet. I wont admit to understanding all his thoughts but none the less it makes for great reading. Bless you Angelica for all the shares
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Thank you Moira....I'm delighted you enjoy our little Corner.

I confess I don't always understand Neruda either but he
paints such pictures with his words.....he's the best ! xx

You girls have said it all. Neruda's works to me, are like songs that although sometimes I cannot learn the words well enough to sing along, I am moved deeply by the melody each and every time.