WHISPERS: Of desires, conflicts and shattered dreams...

I FEEL FAR

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Far away

The sea crashes

On empty beach

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Between my mind and heart...

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The tremors that my hand felt

From her fingers

Travelled to the heart

Within my smile

Holding her silence within

My lips

I felt my love

Flutter in her Arms

"Wait - hold me before you leave"

Hung somewhere between my mind

And  her Heart

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Shattered Dreams...

The touch that lingers

Like phantoms of my mind

The feelings

That sieves out of my passion

Just hold me closer to you

Than your body scent

That lives within my own thoughts

The more passionate thoughts

Coils my mind, gathers all around

More pain,

That breaks out in my heart

Like the grip of your slender legs

Squeezing out pleasure

Till

My last drops

How can I hold you more firmly?

In my thoughts

When your passions

Flutter, even with soft winds of change

While a storm is looming large

Around me and my thoughts

Leaving behind, in its wake

Many a shattered dreams.

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She Skipped....

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I find her

Oriented to the Sea

Like a magnet drawn to it

Finding her moment of solitude

In the expanse of blue depth

Precipated from the sky

She left me alone

The moment the sea unfolded before her eyes

Skipping like a small child

That she still is

To reach out to her soul

Merged within the waves

Like her lover's call

Stopped before the sea engulfed her

Emotions

Feelings

and the sheer vastness of her

Loneliness.

She finds in her lover

The same depth and expanse

Of emptiness

That she finds within

And I watched from a distance

Her framed outlines in the evening sky

and within the depths of her bond

Unattached

Still reaching out

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Om Namah Shivaya

Gabriel Garcia Marquez said of Pablo Neruda," The greatest poet of 20th century - in any language" and here is one of his interesting and beautiful verse called "Body of a Woman". This verse as one of the writer said is an introductory text to the poetry of desire.

Body of a woman
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Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
You look like a world, lying in surrender
My rough peasant's body digs in you
And makes the son leap from the depth of the earth

I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,
And night swamped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
Like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling

But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.

Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.

Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!

Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!

Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows
And weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
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Pablo Neruda
Translated by W S Merwin