The Poetry Show: Love Poems (romantic) on Valentine’s Eve

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Love poems both ideal and sensual, married and seasoned: Yeats, e.e. cummings, Willie the Shake, Rilke, Neruda. Podcasts at podcasts.enlightenradio.org Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded Feb 12, 2025

Sonnet XI

by Pablo Neruda

 

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

 

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