Poetry Recital

We were asked to memorize a poem from a list of poets for my Literature class. Pablo Neruda was included in the list and I recalled liking one of his poems. I first heard this poem from a wedding video and the line that caught my attention was "only you, ever green, ever sun, ever moon..."

And I also believe I have posted this poem here. Only this time I'll be typing it from memory. Whew! Okay!

Sonnet LXXXI

Pablo Neruda

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.

Love and pain and work should all sleep now

The night turns on its invisible wheels,

and you are pure beside me like a sleeping amber

No one else, love, will sleep in my dreams

You will go, we will go together, over the waters of time

No one else will travel through the shadows with me

Only you, ever green, ever sun, ever moon

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists

and let their soft drifting signs drop away

Your eyes are closed like two gray wings and I move,

After, following the folding water you carry that carries me away

The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny

Without you, I am your dream.

Only that, and that is all