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POETRY
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 plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesimal 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 loose on the wind.
Pablo Neruda
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Poesia
Y fue a esa edad... Llegó la poesía a buscarme. No sé, no sé de dónde salió,
de invierno o río. No sé cómo ni cuándo, no, no eran voces, no eran palabras, ni silencio, pero desde una
calle me llamaba, desde las ramas de la noche, de pronto entre los otros, entre fuegos violentos o regresando
solo, allí estaba sin rostro y me tocaba.
Yo no sabía qué decir, mi boca no sabía nombrar, mis
ojos eran ciegos, y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando
aquella quemadura, y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura tontería, pura sabiduría del
que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto, planetas, plantaciones palpitantes,
la sombra perforada, acribillada por flechas, fuego y flores, la noche arrolladora, el universo.
Y
yo, mínimo ser, ebrio del gran vacío constelado, a semejanza, a imagen del misterio, me sentí parte pura
del abismo, rodé con las estrellas, mi corazón se desató en el viento.
- Pablo Neruda
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