PoemClenched Soul
Author / PoetPablo Neruda

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
12 Jul 1904 - 23 Sep 1973
Region: South America
Period: Modernist
Movement: Modernism, Surrealism
Awards: International Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Stalin Peace Prize

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PotterLove, Potter, River
The Eighth Of SeptemberEarth, September
Leave Me A Place UndergroundAlone, Labyrinth, Survive
Here I Love YouLove, Soul
The Old Women Of The OceanAlone, Ocean, Sea
The Men
Don’T Go Far Off
Your Laughter
A Dog Has Died

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