Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Alistar Reid a critic and biographer stated that Neruda is the most widely read poet since William Shakespeare. It was in 1971 that Neruda was awarded the noble prize for literature after several years of being overlooked for his political activism. Pablo Neruda died of heart failure twelve days after the Chilean coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. Already a legend in life, Neruda's death became charged with an intense symbolism that reverberated around the world. Pablo Neruda love poems are love poems that are written by Pablo Neruda.
By Pablo Neruda
Two happy lovers make one bread,
A single moon drops in the grass.
Walking, they cast two shadows that flow together;
Waking, they leave one sun empty in their bed.
Of all the possible truths, they chose the day;
They held it, not with ropes but with an aroma.
They did not shred the peace; they did not shatter words;
Their happiness is a transparent tower.
The air and wine accompany the lovers.
The night delights them with its joyous petals.
They have a right to all the carnations.
Two happy lovers, without an ending, with no death,
They are born; they die, many times while they live:
They have the eternal life of the Natural.
By Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
That this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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