Sunday, June 13, 2010

White Bee by Pablo Neruda

White bee, you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey
and your flight winds in slow spirals of smoke.

I am the one without hope, the word without echoes,
he who lost everything and he who had everything.



Last hawser, in you creaks my last longing.
In my barren land you are the final rose.

Ah you who are silent!

Let your deep eyes close. There the night flutters.
Ah your body, a frightened statue, naked.



You have deep eyes in which the night flails.
Cool arms of flowers and a lap of rose.



Your breasts seem like white snails.
A butterfly of shadow has come to sleep on your belly.



Ah you who are silent!

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