Best Rangoon Poems

Off Rangoon a typhoon my balloon 
it has strewn.  Unfortun-ately, soon 
this spittoon, this mad drain; 
becomes a hurricane 
then spits me out, a prune, off Cancun....

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TYPHOON FROM RANGOON

A lazy typhoon from Rangoon
Ravaged  the seas in a balloon

He scuttled a ship
But let the cord slip

And had to relieve himself on the moon...

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          A tall, handsome, young man from Rangoon,
          With huge feet,shaped as two balloons.
          Wailed ,”No girl will...

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These are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda. 

Religión en el Este (“Religion in the East”)
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch

for Tom Merrill

I realized in Rangoon:
the gods were our enemies
as much as God;
alabaster gods elongated like white whales;
gilded gods gleaming like golden...

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