Thomas Hadley - A Tribute to Pablo Neruda

'Pablo Neruda's Collection'

'pour le femme Artiste'
(for the landscape eternal)
{for the solidity of Thine Eyes}
[for passion's sake]

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Such an aspect of a galaxy
in the gaze of direct eyes!
you surprise, engage, delight
with a suppressed, yet, flashing grin
of mischievous glee!
my Earth, my musking fecundity,
my Gaia, my earthling Love
in heaving exultation....

a challenge, a greeting, a meeting of Souls,
yet, an instant Negation is inherent
if a sense is apprised of something
to be bought or sold!
Such, be it, in the Bazaar of Market life....

So, once again, as it has ever been,
the Pea balanced upon the Knife-edge
of Consciousness
trembling above your scarlet, wet lips....

Perhaps, a picknique is a better place....
Where the Brie is warmed
the Pinot Noir is becalmed
the Wind is flirtatious
and the field is capacious.....

If this be thy last moment,
why not?
Less has been dreamed, less has
been caught!
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Thomas Hadley

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