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  1. POETRY

    -PABLO NERUDA

     

    And it was at that age...Poetry arrived

    in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where

    it came from, from winter or a river.

    I don't know how or when,

    no, they were not voices, they were not

    words, nor silence,

    but from a street I was summoned,

    from the branches of night,

    abruptly from the others,

    among violent fires

    or returning alone,

    there I was without a face

    and it touched me.

     

    I did not know what to say, my mouth

    had no way

    with names

    my eyes were blind,

    and something started in my soul,

    fever or forgotten wings,

    and I made my own way,

    deciphering

    that fire

    and I wrote the first faint line,

    faint, without substance, pure

    nonsense,

    pure wisdom

    of someone who knows nothing,

    and suddenly I saw

    the heavens

    unfastened

    and open,

    planets,

    palpitating planations,

    shadow perforated,

    riddled

    with arrows, fire and flowers,

    the winding night, the universe.

     

    And I, infinitesmal being,

    drunk with the great starry

    void,

    likeness, image of

    mystery,

    I felt myself a pure part

    of the abyss,

    I wheeled with the stars,

    my heart broke free on the open sky.

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