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Favorite Poems
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RE: Favorite Poems
Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were a rose made of salt or topaz
or an arrow of carnations spreading fire:
I love you the way certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you like the plant that never blooms,
but conceals within itself the light of those flowers;
and, thanks to your love, the darkness of my body
houses the suffocating aroma that arose from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, when, or where from;
I love you straightforwardly, with neither problems nor pride:
I love you thus, not knowing how to love you otherwise

than this way whereby neither ‘you’ nor ‘I’ exist…
so close that your hand on my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes grow heavy when I tire.
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Favorite Poems - by thesummerqueen - August 30, 2011 at 3:33 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by Faith No More - August 30, 2011 at 3:36 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by thesummerqueen - August 30, 2011 at 3:40 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by Faith No More - August 30, 2011 at 3:45 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by The Grand Nudger - August 30, 2011 at 3:50 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by thesummerqueen - August 30, 2011 at 3:50 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by Napoléon - August 30, 2011 at 4:01 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by thesummerqueen - August 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by Rev. Rye - August 30, 2011 at 4:29 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by downbeatplumb - August 31, 2011 at 2:56 pm
RE: Favorite Poems - by thesummerqueen - August 31, 2011 at 3:17 pm

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