from THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS
by Pablo Neruda
XXIX
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What is the distance in round meters
between the sun and the oranges?
Who wakes up the sun when it falls asleep
on its burning bed?
Does the earth sing like a cricket
in the music of the heavens?
Is it true that sadness is thick
and melancholy thin?
XLVII
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In the middle of autumn
do you hear yellow explosions?
By what reason or injustice
does the rain weep its joy?
Which birds lead the way
when the flock takes flight?
From what does the hummingbird hang
its dazzling symmetry?
LV
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Why don't they send moles
and turtles to the moon?
Couldn't the animals that engineer
hollows and tunnels
take charge of
these distant inspections?
This week's editor on the Tuesday Poem hub is Robert Sullivan with He Has Superpowers by Daren Kamili
"He's an unsung superhero
in the village
He can fly
breathe underwater
walk on hot lovo stones
No one knows his secret
except his soulmate
Duna
Grandmother Eel
who lives on the reef. . . "
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I love Pablo Neruda Claire, but hadn't read these. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Claire. I have a small volume of Neruda on the bookshelf. I'm just off to find it.
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