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Pablo Neruda in English Translations including 'Religion in the East'

...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...

thanks Santa

...Let's wax poetic - wax on..

We’re in for it
When we enter
the insubstantial country of love

That secret theater, in an invisible mansion of moods

it’s a resort that houses its share of...

Doing My Best

...

I cannot fathom eternity. 
So I wash the dishes from dinner. 
I cannot comprehend the vastness of the universe and galaxies. 
So, I read another story to my child. 
I catch glimpses of how in...

The Haunting

...On drear and endless nights
when the thunder in my head
is louder than
the thunder beyond my window
and sleep denies me rest,
I have to wash my eyes several times,
for her face imprints itself
...

Clouds

...Time has buried itself too deep,
it forces eras to push
tall mountains around yet more
towering stacks.

The dung beetle is enslaved
by an unwavering purpose and labor.
A feverish Sisyphus twi...

Mind's Eye

...("Mind's Eye", 2017, original encaustic)

Mind’s Eye

Within the crystal palace
of mind’s eye
what is small is large
and large is small;
no distance separates objects,
nor time moment...

Beautiful is the poet's carriage, my love

...Beautiful is the poet's carriage, my love,
That can be heard passing among us.
But, Lord, what a long journey it has made,
How pale and weary the poet seems to be!
And what happens, poet, in heav...

Well Rested He Moaned Much

...A slow swim through clouds of consciousness.
My wife said I had lost a day,
but I was timeless, though as my mind moved,
so did the world,
I travelled by ever clearing thoughts,
over distant ski...

Snowflakes

...Slow flakes,
Shaken from a starry sky,
Floating through the air
Like tiny fragile ghosts,
Settling on black branches
Glistening with spectral frost.

The great silence of falling snow.

Each...

Storm Warning

...I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the...

Broken Beauty

...
Broken Beauty

By Mark D. Stucky
Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell,
a rapid, pretty paint job
on an insubstantial surface,
that alluringly promises much
but never sati...

Work Vs Pleasure

...Why is pleasure measured in moments,
while work is measured in weeks or years?

Pleasures are like insubstantial fictions, sweet treats gone
in the tasting or perhaps flowers, that once cut, with...

God Particles

...without the insignificant ~ there'd never be a significance 

    without the insubstantial ~ there'd never be anything of substance 

 without you me and our puny atoms ~ this cosmos would not b...

Temporary Lodgings

...Incineration; it is his living wish.
The urn will be a plain oblong box,
        He will be boxed.

The wooden package will be sent
as only a temporary accommodation,
    not a place of rest or...

In Some Other Place My Mind Skids On Wet Thoughts

...Will we still have a skin to jump out of
when we are flesh no more?

Will we skinny-dip inside a thimble?
Will Summer rain still softly kiss? 
Will there be Harley’s,
plasma shotguns?
Will mos...

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