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Today’s guest poet – Pablo Neruda.
‘In the wave-strike over unquiet stones’
In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
Photo title: Stove on Safari
Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Quote of the day: “”The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd
Daily gratitudes:
My niece brushing my hair – no one has done that since my mother died
Sunshine
Strength
Ceiling fans
Oysters
