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Sonnet XVII by: Pablo Neruda

Journal Entry: Wed May 14, 2008, 7:26 PM
This is my all time favorite poem. I even read it in front of my entire high school from memory for a scholarship contest. I won $300!!!

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

  • Mood: Affection
  • Listening to: Staind
  • Reading: nothin'
  • Watching: Rammstein's Volkerball
  • Playing: With Romeo
  • Eating: Yogurt
  • Drinking: Milk

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*addict85:iconaddict85: May 14, 2008, 9:27:14 PM
:blowkiss::blowkiss:

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Live for something or die for nothing :peace:
Kill your tv :crash:
~AmourRose:iconAmourRose: May 14, 2008, 10:30:34 PM
i take it you like the poem too? lol, good!!! XD