Long Solitudes Poems

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The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ascend with me, my American love!

Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!

The Urubamba’s torrential silver
lures pollen to fly from its golden chalice
while above this...

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Minute by minute is my fleshy integument perspired, 
Lathered and lathed and laved in my own shiny sweat;
And my heart it beats rigorously and unremittingly against its costal chamber,
In the iliac region in which its...

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An Irish lad
Of seven or so
Bears witness to the hate in his fathers eyes
As the British with guns walked on by
Never knew a soldier who wanted to die
Especially one not seeking battle
Ahhh but if eyes...

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Affliction fiercely force foreigners out of the nation ..
Citizen set sight to the sovereign one above..
The ones on earth becomes earthworms eating our happiness and paying it with extreme hardship..
Their heart is ganished with fallacy..
Things...

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Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely 
Course thy hot crimson blood; 
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of compliance
That so must needs to be spoken...
But...Ohhh, Meretrix...
My foolish and...

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The path diverged, a choice laid stark and bare,
Two separate journeys breathing different air.
One winding upward toward a sunlit peak,
The other shadowed by a murmuring creek.

We walked those ways with purpose clear and bold,
Our individual...

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Love is this: two solitudes that meet, protect, and greet each other.
In the labyrinth of my thoughts, where memories weave like delicate threads,
I imagine two lonely stars, floating in the infinite cosmos,
Each a beacon of...

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No one wants to drink alone,
For sweet time is precious and unknown.

But here sits a disheartened fool
Slouched heavy on an unsteady bar stool,
Remembering how it was to smile
As he drinks to forget about life for...

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Will my love wither away? 
Beyond death’s destructive door
Or will it soar throughout eternity, my love...
And thus I shall have a chance to prove my
Devotion to you...
That I may woo you beyond time, 
And thus...

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If in a corner of time, that dances with possibility,
Our solitudes were to cross paths, both yours and mine,
I would bury the compass that seeks you, in extinct pursuit,
And nestle into the secret of your...

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Ode To , We Dead

We dead,  no longer cry, moan or weep,
      lying in covered hole dark and deep
    
We dead, dine it darkened solitudes,
 ...

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Where Love Has Never Gone Before

...the legacy of a poet...


A man is not a man until his love becomes idolatrously immense
Since time began, his love eagerly evolved with his ideal intense
Now in suspended animation, his...

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In solitudes of silence,
     under darkness of a night,
Hidden thoughts of yesteryear
     flex their weary wings for flight.
Through the haze of memory
     and...

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friendly friend
Our closest best
The devil is a friend to all in his circle of influence
The Ghost mood of daemon
He lives with us everyday but pretends he's far away
His light shines beyond his mask
We call for...

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There is a solace in his silence, a servant of his solitudes,
As he comforts in compliance, a jester to the multitudes…
He stands alone a neophyte, struggling within his confines,
Actions that do excite, impugnable inhibition when...

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In the quiet aurora, where no whisper builds awakening,
No expecting arm to scatter the veil of nights that naturally flee.
Is it the embrace of the ether or the mystery of the wasteland being sifted?
In this...

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Silent whispers roaming within heavy hearts
Silent screams amidst crucified wounded souls
Kisses thrown with cadavers of hellion holes
Seduced and tormented upon pernicious parts
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Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the vacant threshold silently awaits,
I pause, when, resonating quietly back...
I now...

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I wanna hiding  with you and escape
from this moody realm  in bathyscaphe
that  made from one pea seed or nutshell,
but inwardly this little chamber 
must been craftily and exactly  
prepared as yacht...

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The Heroes emerge within the storm, unforeseen not the norm,
Generals gather in their swarm, the pestilence prevails to preform…
One by one they will be seen, making miracles as they closely clean,
All is fragile like a...

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Dream Pilgrim 

Slipping past the threshold of the daystar in velvet vesper hues
My weary pilgrim heart sheds the restraints 
Of pale dawn’s blush and twilight’s silver dawning darkness dyed in ebony 
To gather starlit threads...

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I remember the dream of Austria
As the war for me was finally closing 
High in my turret upon the Sherman
I entered this mountain paradise at last
Until I reached the earthly gates of hell

Within those eyes...

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As I walk and linger the only baneful bringer banished from multitudes
For the sky is gone no more descending dawn engulfed by my solitudes
Much pain to bare a seductive scare as I stand on the...

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Dying in silence
Smiling in pretence
Living life in absence of the moment
Faded passion in obscured expression
No place of joy in your endeavors
Life  to you seems living to see each passing day
You can't wait to see...

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