Pequeña
rosa,
rosa pequeña,
a veces,
diminuta y desnuda,
parece,
que en una mano mia
cabes,
que así voy a cerrarte
y llevarte en mi boca,
pero
de pronto
mis pies tocan tus pies y mi boca tus labios:
has crecido,
suben tus hombros como dos colinas,
tus pechos se pasean por mi pecho,
mi brazo alcanza apenas a rodear la delgada
línea de luna nueva que tiene tu cintura:
en el amor como agua de mar te has desatado:
mido apenas los ojos más extensos del cielo
y me inclino a tu boca para besar la tierra.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
La Reina / The Queen
Spent the day running missions around town with a ma petit Karla, and stumbled upon this little gem called "Love Poems" by Pablo Neruda while browsing at Anthropologie. I'm a huge fan of Neruda's and one poem caught my eye and I knew that I had to have this collection of poems.
The book features the original poem in Spanish and the translation on the opposite page. Below find one of my favorites called La Reina (The Queen).
La Reina The Queen
Yo te he nombrado reina. I have named you queen.
Hay mas altas que tu, mas altas. There are taller ones than you, taller.
Hay mas puras que tu, mas puras. There are purer ones than you, purer.
Hay mas bellas que tu, hay mas bellas. There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
Pero tu eres la reina. But you are the queen.
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