"Poetry" by Pablo Neruda

[Passion of the Poets]

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

by Pablo Neruda

[Author-Poet Aberjhani]

One of my favorites by the great Neruda. Gracias,

Aberjhani

[Michael C.Jones]

I always thought Our spirits soared especially during the sleep state. Have you ever woke up tired from a restful night's sleep? Perhaps a year or so later down the road visiting a place, a home, or museum or maybe a white sandy beach on some distant shore and discovered you have been there if only in your dreams. I believe dreams are our spirits' experiences desiring to become in the reality of now or the present: of the which I call soaring. Thank you for sharing the depth, width, and height of this infinite piece of poetry.