Name: The Captain's Verses
ISBN: 9780811218214

Pablo Neruda

Poems presented in Spanish and English record the Chilean author's love for his wife.

The Captain's Verses

Los versos del capitán

The captain's verses =

aside from weird male-dominat-y tones in one of the end poems, most all are lovely

William Nunnery Gutierrez

E-thar

everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me
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And together..
We are complete like a single river,
like a single grain of sand..
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But when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life
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There are countries , there are rivers,
in your eyes,
my country is in your eyes,
I walk through them,
they light the world
through which I walk,
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Keep for me your sweetness
I will give you too
a rose.
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I could not walk
except with you,
I could not sing
except when you sing
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I know nothing of light, where
it comes from or where it goes,
I only want light to light,
I do not ask explanations
of the night,
I wait for it and it envelopes me,
and thus you are , bread
and light and shadow.
You came into my life
with what you brought,
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I wait for you in the harshest desert
and next to the flowering lemon tree,
in every place where is life,
where spring is being born
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Your love also helps me:
it is a closed flower
that constantly fills me with its aroma
and that opens suddenly
within me like a great star