The only man
With an 'in-built"
Eye protractor.
Categories:
reyes, appreciation, perspective, sports,
Form: Than-Bauk
My love for you hides
in our first dance,
our second, our
dances in the hall
with no music and no rhythm.
It lives in the drum beat
of our hearts
where it is safe from the noise.
My love, it waits, it hopes
for our next dance,
the one after that
our last.
I want to be
the music in your life,
as you are mine.
Categories:
reyes, dance, for her, love,
Form: Free verse
Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
Motherless at two weeks of age, sought her.
Within his heart and mind, imagined her.
Age ten, before life had hardly begun,
He, whose talents his family did shun,
Loved her, felt her. She closed his eyes each night.
A boy arose to man with victim’s sight.
Life, splashed with discord from the beginning,
Sometimes sent his thoughts fast-forward spinning.
A Chilean born poet, communist
Political materialist…gist –
A Poetry Pulitizer Prizewinner.
Whose poetic successes still linger.
His legal “pen name” is no mystery.
Pablo Neruda died in state by cancer’s fate.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
May 20, 2010
Poetic form: Rhyme
Categories:
reyes, history, life, people
Form: Rhyme
"A poet goes in search of poetry
To Neruda poetry came to search him.
He knew not from where it sprung.
There were no voices, faces or words
Poetry touched the man without a face".
Surrounded by foreign language
And alien culture, without literary community
He learnt what true loneliness was
Turning inward he wrote Residence of Earth.
He was in his true element in Spain
He wrote love poetry inspired by Matilde.
Neruda presented woman and nature
Often passionate odes to love and nature.
To him “Love is a journey thro’ waters and stars
Love is a war of lightning- two bodies ruined
By a single sweetness – a genital fire
Transformed by the delight”.
Categories:
reyes, inspirationallove, poetry,
Form: Verse