I Like You When You Are Quiet
Pablo Neruda
I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent,
and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you.
It looks as though your eyes had flown away
and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your mouth.
Like all things are full of my soul
You emerge from the things, full of my soul.
Dream butterfly, you look like my soul,
and you look like a melancoly word.
I like you when you are quiet and it is as though you are distant.
It is as though you are complaining, butterfly in lullaby.
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you:
let me fall quiet with your own silence.
Let me also speak to you with your silence
Clear like a lamp, simple like a ring.
You are like the night, quiet and constellated.
Your silence is of a star, so far away and solitary.
I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent.
Distant and painful as if you had died.
A word then, a smile is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.
Love the poem a great love expression and the butterfly just beautiful
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Thanks Sheldon.
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Ahhh, Neruda.
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El Pablo ~ 🙂
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Lovely read this morning and stunning photos to match
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Thank you, I’m happy you liked it.
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Very welcome Maverick.
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Love Pablo and fantastic image to pair with it.
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Thanks Noelle.
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Lovely!
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Thank you Cindy.
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Beautiful.
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Thanks Georgia.
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Gosto quando Te Calas it is one of my favorite an endless poetry….. As Pablo is infinite . Thanks for the beautiful post and photo 🙂 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it and thank you for your kind comment.
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Exquisite! The photo is stunning, the poem amazing. I’d never read that one before. Well done, and thank you.
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Thank you very much for your nice comment.
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Dolce sabato 🙂
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Dolce sabato Simo ❤ 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Linden Chronicles: The Wolf's Moon by Patrick Jones and commented:
Absolutely beautiful! Happy Saturday!
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🙂
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Happy Saturday Patrick and thank you.
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the butterfly’s kiss! Beautiful – and I love the little fly too!!
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Haha, whatever it was photo bombed me. Thanks. 🙂
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PS: or bee!
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so gorgeously sun-kissed!
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It was, thank you.
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