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#LuckyInLove Day 23 #LovePoem

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#PoetryMatters Day 2: #Tipsy

Greetings from Friendsgiving! Since I've been crap at #foodandlit the last few months, the least I could do is bring Chilean wine to our festivities! I'm hoping to read the tagged book and perhaps a book by Isabel Allende, but this will clearly bleed into December.

#PoetryMatters Day 10: #Sudden
“If suddenly you forget me…”

Meh 🫤 It was ok. I was expecting to be blown away, and was mildly disappointed. There were some lines I liked, but I'm clearly not seeing the depths others find here. I'll reread it sometime to see if I can plumb anything more profound, as undoubtedly it's me, not Pablo. 3⭐
I'll read something else by an author from #Chile to do justice to my #ReadingTheAmericas2023 challenge.
@BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Chile 🇨🇱
On the way to Scotland for a few days. Naturally, it's pissing down, but as I've prepared for that eventuality with a massive stack of books & a bottle of whisky, I won't mind staying in, or getting soaked & wrapping up afterwards, as the case may be 🌧️📚🥃
Mrs B is driving while I read. Soundtrack has included The Proclaimers, Aztec Camera & Paolo Nutini for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 solidarity, but Elvis is on now 🎶

First poetry book of 2023. I try to read a poem a day. Ideally with organic tea in bed and because I‘m on school holidays I can do just that. With no alarm to wake me up. The painting in the back ground is at my mother‘s place as you walk up the stairs to the landing. It‘s of a shearing shed. Both her father and brother were shearers. Good ones so I‘ve heard. I am enjoying these romantic poems so far. I scored them at an op shop a week ago for $3.

No list is complete without Pablo Neruda. Accessible even to those who don‘t read poetry, his work is beautiful.

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees” 🌸

#alphabetgame #letterT @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ItHadToBeYou #lovepoem @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Fully unable to fathom why this only has a 50% rating. One of the best poetry collections I have ever read. To think that he was only 20 when he wrote it 😩 The mastery of language and inert understanding of being in love AND losing love somehow translate into English incredibly well and for that I‘m convinced that Neruda was a genius.

“I want to do with you / what spring does to the cherry blossoms.” 🌸🥺

Hello everybody both of my library holds have came in so I'm reading this one first so far I am loving it so far, I do poetry every now and then but it has really by different poetry.

Updated on life: Fully moved in and loving my house and job. University is up and in full swing and I have to admit I love it but it is hard. Keep fighting ❤️🤙🥰 #readingthelibrary #keepreading #librarybooks

I've decided to make it a Valentine's tradition to read a book of love poems on the day and this was my 2020 pick for no deeper reason than it has 20 in the title 😂

It was a pretty good collection, some poems stronger than others, and I liked that it had bilingual facing pages for each poem. Nowhere near being able to read poetry fully in Spanish but it was nice to practice.

#QuotsyNov19 Day 20: #Name

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Third book finished in #24in48, nice little break with some poetry! 😪

Tonight i can write the saddest lines.

Sharing my favourite poem from the book..

This collection of poems apparently are Neruda‘s most beloved - romantic poems of love and pain, expressed in much intimacy and in a brazen way. I like a few better than the others and my favourite was Tonight I Can Write.

20 things about me (and I managed to find the title of a book I like with the word twenty in it!)

Nominated by @merelybookish. I am nominating the last 5 people I followed who haven't seen to have done this yet to say hello: @Sassenach1 @Gissy @sixgun @EliseJames @blamethestardust

(Sorry, @Literaturenut I saw you posted this already, but hello anyway!)

#twentythings #twentythingsaboutme

"Tonight I Can Write" my favourite poem from Pablo Neruda. So very beautiful.

These poems contain much tenderness of love and the power of passion. I plan to read more poems this year, too.

#musicalnewyear #seasonsoflove
#anewchapter #newbeginnings

#riotgrams feb 19: favorite school reads

#FierceFeb #Cheerleader Everyday you Play
How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me my savage solitary soul

My words rained over you
A long time I have loved the sunned mother of pearl of your body
I go so far as to think that you own the universe
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells
Dark hazels & rustic baskets of kisses
I want
to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees
👇🏻

#FierceFeb #IsThisDesire From We Have Lost Eden , Pablo Neruda....

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

I no longer love her, that‘s certain, but maybe I love her. #poetrychallenge2018

Finally getting started with #poetrychallenge2018 ! I read some Neruda in high school, and always meant to check out more of his work. I‘m glad this challenge motivated me to finally do it!

Some poems better than others (he‘s really into breasts and the word “moist”) but I didn‘t like any of them as much as I Do Not Love You, which isn‘t in this book.

#desire #quotsy #quotsydec17

#twenty #Novemberbythenumbers a few choices today but this is my favourite ❤️📚

One of my favorite books of poetry. 😍😍
#NovemberbytheNumbers
@JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads

I think this whole poem is #bittersweet
#quotsynov17

These are my favourite set of poems. Pablo Neruda has ruined me for life.

Thanks, @jdtchicago
This was hard to pick! My Dead Poets Society:
1. Langston Hughes
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Maya Angelou
4. Sylvia Plath
5. Pablo Neruda
#dps5

Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Done with these five for the start of #24in48. There were a few I liked in each, but overall I could take them or leave them. I think I am officially poemed out!!

pablo neruda //

We visited La Chascona today, the house Pablo Neruda built with his third wife, Matilde. They had quite a variety of art from around the world. He was a fascinating figure - in addition to winning the Nobel prize in literature, he was also very politically active in Chile. #pabloneruda #nobel #poetry

Neruda is by far one of the most talented poets to date. All you can do is read in awe of his beautiful and perfect phrasing and word choice. 💕💕💕

"A veces amanezco, y hasta mi alma está húmeda./Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet."
This might be a slight stretch for #booktober Day 2: "Set in South America," but this is my beloved copy of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, borrowed from my first romance and never returned. Its pages are loose and it was already secondhand when I nicked it, dedicated with love from one stranger to another. @RealLifeReading

But my words become stained with your love.
You occupy everything, you occupy everything.
(from "So That You Will Hear Me")

My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me.
(from "Here I Love You")

I ordered an actual physical book. There was no ebook version of this edition and I love this translation.

I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry trees. 🌸

I was surprised to see this poem here. Neruda paraphrases one of the poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Two of my all time favorite poets.. "Huntress of the depths of my eyes, your plunder stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water."

Neruda understands more about the break then the heart itself. He leaves me breathless.

Day 19. A few people posted about Pablo Neruda today and it's reminded me just how much I like his work. This is a bit from his poem "Every Day You Play". Lovely, don't you think? #poetry #augustofpages @TheSpinecrackersBookClub

Pablo Neruda - Leaning Into The Afternoons