Pablo Neruda Love Poetry contains his 100 Love Sonnets inspired by his wife, Matilde.

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Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:

I wavered through the streets, among objects:

nothing mattered or had a name:

the world was made of air, which waited.

I knew rooms full of ashes,

tunnels where the moon lived,

rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',

questions that insisted in the sand.

Everything was empty, dead, mute,

fallen abandoned, and decayed:

inconceivably alien, it all

belonged to someone else - to no one:

till your beauty and your poverty

filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

Here is another love sonnet from Pablo Neruda Love Poetry

Who ever desired each other as we do?’ FROM: 100 LOVE SONNETS XCV

Who ever desired each other as we do? Let us look

for the ancient ashes of hearts that burned,

and let our kisses touch there, one by one,

till the flower, disembodied, rises again.

Let us love that Desire that consumed its own fruit

and went down, aspect and power, into the earth:

We are its continuing light,

its indestructible, fragile seed.

That Desire, interred in time’s deep winter,

by snows and spring-times, absence and autumns,

bring to it the apple’s new light,

that freshness disclosed by a strange wound,

like that ancient Desire that journeys in silence

through submerged mouths’ eternities.

This is a particularly brilliant example of Pablo Neruda Love Poetry from his 100 Love Sonnets

SONNET XLV DON'T GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --

because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long

and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station

when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because

then the little drops of anguish will all run together,

the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift

into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;

may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.

Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far

I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,

Will you come back? Will you leave me here,

dying?

I am sure you found that example of 100 Love Sonnets, from Pablo Neruda Love Poetry riveting. Here is Sonnet LXIX

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.’ FROM: 100 LOVE SONNETS LXIX

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,

without your going, that cuts noon light

like a blue flower, without your passing

later through fog and stones,

without the torch you lift in your hand

that others may not see as golden,

that perhaps no one believed blossomed

the glowing origin of the rose,

without, in the end, your being, your coming

suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,

blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:

and it follows that I am, because you are:

it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we:

and, because of love, you will, I will,

We will, come to be.

This is the last love sonnet on this page from Pablo Neruda Love Poetry.

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,’ FROM: 100 LOVE SONNETS LXXIX

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,

and both will defeat the darkness

like twin drums beating in the forest

against the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dream

that cuts the thread of earthly orbs

with the punctuality of a headlong train

that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,

to the grip on life that beats in your breast,

with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might reply

to the sky’s questioning stars

with one key, one door closed to shadow.

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