Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and …

Pablo Neruda
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Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, sup … ▶
Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her. ✨ Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. ✨ Pablo Neruda (1990). Selected Poems, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

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