** Poem 12 (20 love poems and a desperate song, 1924) **
For my heart your chest is enough,
For your freedom my wings are enough.
From my mouth it will reach the sky
What was asleep on your soul …
If you forget me
I want you to know
One thing.
You know how this is:
If I look
The glass moon, the red branch
of the slow fall in my window,
If I play
next to the fire
The impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of firewood,
Everything takes me to you,
As if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
They were small ships that sail
towards the islands of yours that await me …
Love
Woman, I would have been your child, for drinking you
breast milk as a spring,
for looking at you and feeling by my side and having you
In the golden laugh and the glass voice …
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** Sonnet XXII (One Hundred Sonetos de Amor, 1959) **
How many times, love, I loved you without seeing you and maybe without memory,
Without recognizing your gaze, without looking at you, Centaura,
In contrary regions, at a burning noon:
You were only the aroma of the cereals that I love …
** Poem 15 (20 love poems and a desperate song, 1924) **
I like you when you shut up because you are absent,
And you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you.
It seems that the eyes would have flown
And it seems that a kiss will close your mouth …
** Poem 20 (20 love poems and a desperate song, 1924) **
I can write the saddest verses tonight.
Write, for example: »The night is starry,
and throw, blue, the stars, in the distance ».
The night wind turns in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest verses tonight.
I loved her, sometimes she loved me too …
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