Precipices Poems - Poems about Precipices

Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'

...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 torren...

Nothing Artificial About It

...Time, a cryptic essence, weaves its spectral threads,
Change, an eternal phantom, in ceaseless evolution treads.
Humanity, in languid pursuit of effortless resolution,
Seeks fusion in complex or i...

Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul

...Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul,
Disturbs your peace, devastates your routine, transforming you into a shadow of what you once were,
Each mome...

The Amalgam of Pain

...I am concerned with the structures that sustain the universe, 
with the mighty river of time, 
the tablature and the compass of souls 
dispersed in their endless penances, 
the enigmatic smile...

Dangers of Life

...In life we jump obstacles,
            we jump precipices,
            that we don't even sight...!...

Lighting

...but please stay away from heavy thoughts, sad songs and their meanings, keep away from hidden words in the dictionary, we just ripen fast in pain and the ink didn't even dry on the calendar, we al...

Intoxicated

...intoxicated by entwined souls,
breasts beating, breathing
in the amalgamation of us.
trust in lips, tongues, stress
of otherworldly communication.

neo-occasion of bare skin,
slightly shy, sur...

Poem To Your Incredible Indecifrable Eyes

...Abyssal, abysmal, profound,
superficial, light, evident,
your eyes change color...
Cracks, gaps, ruptures,
labyrinths, anguishes, throat
your eyes confine my desires...
Precipices, cliffs, gull...

Where Do I Live

...Where do I live? I live
In the ever changing
Blues and greens of the ocean,
Darting soundlessly, weightlessly
From pink coral to white
Among the waving sea creatures
Amidst iridescent fish
And...

Four Elements

...How bottomless you are, the lonely hell,
how dark and joyless, but the love I fell
in is much deeper. Oh, four words you said
so unexpectedly that my ink bled,
four elements, four natures of desp...

Evidence of Spirit Part Iv: La Folie Du Renard

...An essence heard a heartfelt plea
meek, unconfident, not familiar
"Should I bother anymore? Please guide me."
His words hardly mist....
a response slices the scene
     with the speed of a guill...

The Fisherman

...The fog hovering above the cold waters is
Reminiscent of steam over hot pavement in the summer,
Ominous figures in the shadows, poles projecting from unknown precipices,
And amber skies promising ...

Himalayas

...Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan m...

I Am But a Speck

...Below me sweeps a thousand feet
Of air and nothing more,
Precipices fall away
Yet stir me to the core.

Yawning chasms, with evil gape
Scare a mortal soul,
Oh, but is there elsewhere
A spirit...

Dayflight

...These eagles,
these creatures of 
the High Sky.

They hatch in
nests of branch
and twig; nestled,
fitted into crags;
perched over 
precipices.

Soon to soar,
but first,
they fledge,
the...

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