What Are Years – Marianne Moore
What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. And whence is courage: the unanswered … Continue reading What Are Years – Marianne Moore
What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. And whence is courage: the unanswered … Continue reading What Are Years – Marianne Moore
Where the Sidewalk Ends There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the … Continue reading Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
Do not give me only perfect For there is beauty in what lacks, The things that are most true Are … Continue reading A Poem by Erin Hanson
દસ વરસની ગણતરીઓ અને મથામણ પછી મારી પાસે છે ત્રણ ઓરડાવાળું ખોરડું એક ઓરડો મારો, ઉજ્જવળ ચન્દ્રનો બીજો ને ત્રીજો, … Continue reading કોરિયાની પ્રશિષ્ટ કવિતા: સિજો
I remember you as you were that final autumn. You were a gray beret and the whole being at peace. … Continue reading A poem by Pablo Neruda
Now I out walking The world desert, And my shoe and my stocking Do me no hurt. I leave behind … Continue reading Away – Robert Frost
The wind is blowing no more The fallen leaves are resting After landing now They’re making a crunchy sound as … Continue reading Belonging – Nehal
What though thy bed be frozen earth, Thy cloak the chilling blast; What though no mate to cheer thy path, … Continue reading To an early Violet – Swami Vivekananda
Informational Decay I heard an echo in a hollow place. No sound of blowing wind or drifting sand, some ancient … Continue reading Informational Decay – Tiel Aisha Ansari
After Great Pain After great pain a formal feeling comes- The Nerves sit ceremonious like Tombs; The stiff heart questions- … Continue reading After Great Pain – Emily Dickinson
એક દીપક છે તારા હ્રદયમાં એક દીપક છે તારા હ્રદયમાં તત્પર પ્રજળી ઊઠવાને. એક શૂન્યતા છે તારી સુરતામાં તત્પર ભરપૂરતા … Continue reading એક દીપક છે તારા હ્રદયમાં- There is a candle in the heart – Rumi
ને ધબકે છે નિઃશબ્દતા કવિતામાં શબ્દો પૂર્વે હું હંમેશાં સાંભળું છું નિઃશબ્દતાને, પીઉં છું એના અસલ સ્રોતમાંથી પછી બધું થાય … Continue reading ને ધબકે છે નિઃશબ્દતા – અમિના સૈદ
Eternity The sun habitually cajoles men with red lollipops. Day is mother’s lap–in her colourfully printed sari one hides the … Continue reading Eternity – Sitanshu Yashaschandra
I Want to Write I want to write I want to write the songs of my people. I want to … Continue reading I Want to Write , મારે લખવું છે- Margaret Walker
દુનિયામાં જે કંઈ સુંદર છે, તે વિયોગના અગ્નિમાંથી બહાર આવે છે. અનંત આકાશમાં વિહરતી અનેક રૂપમૂર્તિઓ એ બીજું કાંઈ નથી, … Continue reading ગીતાંજલિ – ભાવાનુવાદ: ધૂમકેતુ
The Meaning of Simplicity I hide myself behind simple objects so you may find me, If you do not … Continue reading The Meaning of Simplicity – Yannis Ritsos
Canticle VI You have a fear: End. You do not see that you end up all day. That you die … Continue reading Canticle VI – Cecília Meireles
RUMI AND THE REED Listen to the song of the reed flute: It sings of separation. Torn from the leaf-layered, … Continue reading RUMI AND THE REED – Tabish Khair
પ્રયોજન ક્ષણનું આ અસ્તિત્વ છે એથી તો હું ગીત ગાઉં છું ને આ મારી પૂર્ણ જિંદગી નહીં સુખી: નહીં દુખી. … Continue reading Cecilia Meireles – MOTIVE પ્રયોજન
WITH A LANTERN OF HOPE Drifted in by tidal waves with hugs of attachment on the shore of the North … Continue reading WITH A LANTERN OF HOPE – Tin Moe
She opened the shutters, She hung the sheets over the sill. She saw the day. A bird looked at her … Continue reading Morning – Yannis Ritsos
The Just A man who, as Voltaire wished, cultivates his garden. He who is grateful that music exists on earth. … Continue reading The Just – Jorge Luis Borges
The First Jasmines Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines! I seem to remember the first day when I filled my … Continue reading The First Jasmines – Rabindranath Tagore
आह को चाहिए इक उम्र असर होते तक कौन जीता है तिरी ज़ुल्फ़ के सर होते तक (A prayer needs … Continue reading आह को चाहिए इक उम्र असर होते तक – मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब
Alleyway (Mi chiama talvolta la tua voce) Sometimes your voice calls to me, and I do not know what skies … Continue reading Alleyway – Quasimodo
The Art Of Poetry To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. … Continue reading The Art Of Poetry – કવિતાની કળા
Testament So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass with its grains of sand drifting down, not as … Continue reading Testament – Hayden Carruth
Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to … Continue reading Two Poems – Langston Hughes
Negro Speaks Of Rivers I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of … Continue reading Negro Speaks Of Rivers – Langston Hughes
The Birth Of Song (Sorgiva: luce riemersa) Arise: re-emergent light: bright burning leaves. I lie down in brimming rivers where … Continue reading The Birth Of Song – Quasimodo
Suddenly It’s Evening (Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra) Everyone is alone at the heart of the earth, pierced … Continue reading Suddenly It’s Evening – અને અચાનક
નિરંજન ભગતને ભાવભીની શ્રધ્ધાંજલિ લડ્યો ન, લડવા સમુંય મુજને ન કોઈ મળ્યું, સદા કુદરતે, કલારસ વિશે જ હૈયું ઢળ્યું, તપ્યો … Continue reading નિરંજન ભગતને ભાવભીની શ્રધ્ધાંજલિ (Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher)
Happiness Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. Days of passive somnolence, At its wildest, indolence. Hours of … Continue reading Happiness – Amy Lowell
Deep in the Stillness He threw me away like a clod of earth. He didn’t know I was a thing … Continue reading Deep in the Stillness- सन्नाटे में दूर तक
When I Spoke to the Sky; My journey to love ends in you! He covered me from all over Went … Continue reading An Eternal bond!- Nehal
The way Sun rays travel Through the green fog Creating Luminous pathways Admist The mountains Stream Trees And valleys My … Continue reading Sun rays – Nehal
Ecstasy For years it was in sex and I thought this was the most of it so brief a moment … Continue reading Ecstasy – Hayden Carruth
कैशोर्य के उन दिनों में मैं सुबह की ख़ुशियों से भर जाता था, पर शामों में रुदन ही रुदन था … Continue reading कालान्तर – Then And Now
Grant me just one summer, powerful ones, And just one autumn for ripe songs, That my heart, filled with that … Continue reading To The Fates – Friedrich Hölderlin
it’s late in the evening. Stars have started to appear. waves are small and scattered. .. still chasing each other … Continue reading An evening at the Sea- Nehal
Sunshine A golden sun shines on floating islands in the cosmos. The rarefied mist has slipped aside. Your face quivers … Continue reading Sunshine – Gulzar
Life is the name given to a few moments, and In but one of those fleeting moments Two eyes meet … Continue reading A Moment in Time – एक लम्हा : कैफ़ी आज़मी
The First Kiss at Parting Humid seal of soft affections, Tenderest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, … Continue reading The First Kiss at Parting : Robert Burns
A Journey It’s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . … Continue reading A Journey – Nikki Giovanni
Wind is playing piano On this lake. Shadows of the trees are black keys. Shadows of the clouds are white … Continue reading On this Blissful Day… : Nehal
A Dream Within a Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let … Continue reading A Dream Within a Dream- Edgar Allan Poe
Life Life, believe, is not a dream So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant … Continue reading Life – Charlotte Brontë
Wonder A day drunk with the nectar of nowness weaves its way between the years to find itself at … Continue reading Two Poems – Maya Angelou
Amen Give everything away— Ideas, breath, vision, thoughts. Peel off words from the lips, and sounds from the tongue. Wipe … Continue reading Amen- कुछ और नज़्में
Her poems are intense, palpable, strong sensory experiences, you are travelling with her, chasing evening shadows in the long corridors … Continue reading I Have a Melody in my Pulse : Deepti Naval
मख़मली ढलानों पर मख़मली ढलानो पर आख़िरी आवाज़ थम चुकी है चरवाहे की दिन है कि दबे पांव गुज़र रहा … Continue reading मख़मली ढलानों पर – दीप्ति नवल
This Scene Your chin on your knees, you sit there, blue striped sari In a dream your hair flowing on … Continue reading Neera Poems – Sunil Gangopadhyay
मनौबुद्धिय् अंहकार चितानि नहम न च श्रोत्रः जि्व्हे न च घ्रणा नेत्र न च व्योम भुमिर न तेजो न वायु … Continue reading નિર્વાણષટકમ – આદિ શંકરાચાર્ય, English translation by Swami Vivekanand
આ પુસ્તકનું વિષયવસ્તુ એક સરળ અને આધ્યાત્મિક વ્યક્તિના જીવન પર આધારિત છે, જે લાલન ફકીર તરીકે ઓળખાતા સંસારી ભજનિક હતા.એમની … Continue reading ‘મોનેર માનુષ’ – સુનીલ ગંગોપાધ્યાય
In a room in solitude In a room in solitude was painting some silence, At once a chirping sparrow came … Continue reading સાવ ઓરડે એકલવાયો – – અનિલ ચાવડા
An Old Poet’s Suicide Note Walking in the dark I grew blind Wading across silence I turned deaf Teachers who … Continue reading An Old Poet’s Suicide Note
MILES UPON MILES Miles and miles and miles pass through me Unmoving and still as the train rushes on. Those … Continue reading MILES UPON MILES – Umashankar Joshi
About Poems Poems are not written, poems happen. Poems were there before there were poets. Poems are scratched window panes. … Continue reading About Poems – Michael Augustin
The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can … Continue reading The More Loving One : W H Auden
Today is my father’s birthday and he would have been in his 80s if he had lived longer. It’s never … Continue reading A Psalm of Life : H W Longfellow
Crossing the Bar Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of … Continue reading Crossing the Bar – Lord Tennyson
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, … Continue reading Holidays – H W Longfellow
A Large Number by Wislawa Szymborska Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is the way it’s always … Continue reading A Large Number – Wislawa Szymborska
Before Sleep I was in love with anatomy the symmetry of my body poised for flight, the heights it would … Continue reading Before Sleep
A Day Dream On a sunny brae, alone I lay One summer afternoon; It was the marriage-time of May With … Continue reading A Day Dream – Emily Bronte
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, … Continue reading My Comforter – Emily Bronte
The Old Friend calls to tell me he can’t see the same things he saw yesterday; the book he was … Continue reading The Old Friend – Michael Hettich
The Spelling I left a spelling at my father’s house written in small coins on his front step. It said … Continue reading The Spelling – Simon Armitage
Capoeira Boy I saw him on YouTube. He was learning the martial art that masks fighting as dance; the rocking, … Continue reading Capoeira Boy : Ruth Padel
Do you hear it? In a drop, the rain sings in chorus, do you hear it? In the seed, lush … Continue reading Do you hear it? – Kisan Sosa
Heading home After a day’s work Sweat on my forehead Thirst burning my throat Summer Sun, heating pad on my … Continue reading An encounter with the summer sun!- Nehal
The Burning Kite What a thing it would be, if we all could fly. But to rise on air does … Continue reading The Burning Kite – Ouyang Jianghe
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread … Continue reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Of the many men who I am, who we are, I can’t find a single; they disappear among my clothes, … Continue reading We are many – Pablo Neruda
Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less Unbound by name and fame he is free … Continue reading Rumi (3)
આ અદ્ભુત રચના પસંદ કરવાનો હેતુ એમાં થયેલો સૂફી પરંપરા, ભક્તિ માર્ગ અને અદ્વૈતનો સુભગ સંગમ છે. પરમ તત્ત્વ અહીં … Continue reading अमीर खुसरो – Amir Khusrau(1253-1325)
Woman Rise, my love!You have to walk along with me Sparks of rebellion are astir in the air, todayBoth time … Continue reading Woman – Kaifi Azmi
मुरली बजत अखंड सदा से, तहाँ प्रेम झनकारा है। प्रेम-हद तजी जब भाई, सत लोक की हद पुनि आई। उठत … Continue reading कबीर बानी-Poems of Kabir
When I first read this poem, I instantly fell in love with simplicity of this lyrical beauty! . … Continue reading Down by the Salley Gardens : W B Yeats
Its morning the sea in front of me roaring; keeps rushing to the shore. like a child; restless and energetic! … Continue reading By the Sea -Nehal
Swans Washed in Arctic Return to their ballroom of glass Still in the grip of the wizard, With the jewel … Continue reading Swans – Ted Hughes
Life Like a drifting log Flows forward, downstream Rocks and stones on the shore Push it, detour it, force … Continue reading A drifting Log – Nehal
Coole Park, 1929 I meditate upon a swallow’s flight, Upon an aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree … Continue reading Coole Park, 1929-W.B.Yeats
Does it exist, though, Time the destroyer? When will it scatter the tower on the resting hill? This heart, the … Continue reading Does it exist, though, Time the destroyer? : Rilke
The Wait It is life in slow motion, It’s the heart in reverse, It’s a hope-and-a-half: too much and too … Continue reading The Wait – Rilke
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The People I recall that man and not two centuries have passed since I saw him, he went neither … Continue reading The People : Pablo Neruda
The Waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. … Continue reading The Waking : Theodore Roethke
In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my … Continue reading Theodore Roethke – In a dark time
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When poets climb another mountain in order to set themselves free, to be moved, to be… Continue reading When Poets Climb Another Mountain
To Autumn O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath … Continue reading To Autumn – William Blake
The Windows In these dark rooms my days are burdensome; and restlessly I wander to and fro seeking the windows. … Continue reading The Windows – C V Cavafy
Beautifully written! Pain delicately expressed fills my heart with the sound of those bells and rain! Back when … Continue reading November Rain — Poet’s Corner
Be Drunk You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not … Continue reading Be Drunk- Charles Baudelaire
Granted one poet’s experience with manual metaphysics doesn’t make a poetics; but I’ve pared my nails to the quick to … Continue reading Pablo Neruda
મિત્રો આપણે બધાં રંગબેરંગી થીંગડા જેવા જિંદગી ના પહેરણ પર બનાવીએ રંગીન આવરણ ભૂખરા વાસ્તવ ને ઢાંકતું ઉકલી ગયેલા ટાંકાઓ … Continue reading મિત્રો – Friends – નેહલ
આ કવિતામાં ગમે કે ન ગમે તું આ લીલીછમ કવિતામાં ગોઠવાઈ જઈશ અહીં હુંફ છે થોડીક હરિયાળી, થોડુંક આકાશ, થોડુંક … Continue reading આ કવિતામાં- યાનિસ કોન્ટોસ
you are all in yourself, sea and yet How much of you is not you, how lonely, And forever … Continue reading A Poem – Juan Ramon Jimenez
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clouds-carriages are full of ticketless birds the summer speeds past dropping onto my doorstep an expired… Continue reading summer leaves- TETIANA ALEKSINA
Tears Fall in My Heart Tears fall in my heart as rain falls on the town; what is this numb … Continue reading Tears Fall in My Heart- Paul Verlaine
Lighthouses Lighthouses resemble poets watching only perilous things- a storm in the centre of the wind or an approaching tide … Continue reading Lighthouses – Yamamoto Taro
When you play the piano….. Raindrops dance on the water Flowers glide gently in the air The autumn leaves … Continue reading Piano -Nehal
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“Weaver on the Loom” by Vincent Van Gogh fingers of poets play nimbly… Continue reading Weaver
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If you don’t sing very well, try painting or photography or a poem about a sunset,… Continue reading If You Don’t Sing
To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy … Continue reading To a Skylark – Shelley(1820)
This one is my favourite poem, by one of my favourite poet Late Shri Ravji Patel. I was searching for … Continue reading (આભાસી મૃત્યુનું ગીત) – રાવજી પટેલ
I return back to my childhood, every time I walk on the beach! 🙂 This beautiful poem gently evokes child … Continue reading Forgotten Sand Castles
Persephone Mother, the life you value’s A skeleton hung with bunting. A saxophone brash Blares out Duty! Duty! Duty! Stuck … Continue reading Persephone
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Saw a little wayside flower growing right there in the street Finding just enough moisture to… Continue reading Life is a wayside flower
He became the most loved poet in America and won four times Pulitzer prize; long time before that…… Robert Frost … Continue reading Birches : Robert Frost
Alexander Pope ( 1688-1744) was born in London and became severely ill at the age of twelve so that his … Continue reading Solitude : Alexander Pope
હાં રે હરિ વસે હરિજનમાં, તમે શું કરશો રે જઈ વનમાં રે. હાં રે.. ભેખ ધરીને તમે શીદ ભટકો છો … Continue reading મીરાં – Meera
Fear death? _ to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and … Continue reading Prospice – Robert Browning
A Poem Perched On a Moment A poem perched on a moment Imprisoned in a butterfly net Then its wings … Continue reading Neglected Poems – Gulzar
ग़ज़ल मैं ढूँढता हूँ जिसे वह जहाँ नहीं मिलता नयी ज़मीन नया आसमाँ नहीं मिलता नयी ज़मीन नया आसमाँ भी … Continue reading ग़ज़ल – Ghazal – कैफ़ी आज़मी
‘O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell’ O SOLITUDE! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be … Continue reading O Solitude! – John Keats
Jose Juan Tablada ( 1871- 1945) A poet, art critic and journalist, Tablada was one of the most fertile and … Continue reading Haiku – Mexican Poetry
If it’s raining tears Learn to get wet And let it dry with your breath! If heartache playing an accordion … Continue reading Melody called life – Nehal
Moonlit Night In Fuzhou, far away, my wife is watching The moon alone tonight, and my thoughts fill … Continue reading Chinese Poems – Du Fu [ Tu Fu ]
SONG OF MYSELF – WALT WHITMAN A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; … Continue reading WALT WHITMAN(3) – મકરંદ દવે
The Aegean This music has lasted since the world began. A rock was born among the waters While tiny waves … Continue reading The Aegean [ Egeo]
Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute The monk from Shu with his green lute-case walked Westward down … Continue reading Chinese Poems – Li Bai
Wang Wei, was a poet during Tang Dynasty, period of great cultural glory in Chinese history. He was an … Continue reading Chinese Poems- Wang Wei
[Emily Dickinson’s House, now a Museum] The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, “Come in,” I … Continue reading Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems (3)
I save your music for my rainy-day songs; Save your sunshine for my petals and thorns; Save your clouds for … Continue reading My Treasure -Nehal
Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets,- Prodigal blue, Spending scarlet like a … Continue reading Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems (2)
The Lake Is a Piano { for Jude on her birthday] the lake is a piano as the sky whispers … Continue reading The Lake Is a Piano
Sat by the water for hours. Watched nothing but water. how it was spelt out by light: Its … Continue reading Dockside
સ્ત્રીનું ગીત મરણના બે પ્રકાર છે એક શ્વાસને સડવે છે ઝડપભેર છેક હાડકાંથી અને આત્મા બળીઝળીને આંધી પહેલાં ઊછળતું એક … Continue reading સ્ત્રીનું ગીત
चांद और सितारे डरते-डरते दमे-सहर से तारे कह्ने लगे क़मर से नज़ारे रहे वही फ़लक पर हम थक भी गये … Continue reading चांद और सितारे – इकबाल – The Moon and The Stars
Free Born free to be caught and fashioned and shaped and freed to wander within a caged dream of tears … Continue reading Free
Your work that to my inward sight still comes, Fruit of your graced labours: The gold of always-autumnal limes, The … Continue reading To an Artist
Woman Work I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop … Continue reading Woman Work – Maya Angelou Poems
Why such harsh machinery? Why, to write down the stuff and people of everyday, must poems be dressed up in … Continue reading Sweetness,always(Dulce siempre)
The snow is melting and the village is flooded with children. . . . . . . Don’t worry, … Continue reading The Essential Haiku – Issa
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at ones I saw … Continue reading I wandered lonely as a cloud- William Wordsworth
Coolness- the sound of the bell as it leaves the bell. * * * * * * * * … Continue reading The Essential Haiku -Buson
Deep autumn- my neighbour, how does he live, I wonder? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Autumn moonlight- a worm digs silently into the chestnut. … Continue reading The Essential Haiku – Bashō
Variations On The Word Love This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for … Continue reading Variations On The Word Love – Poem by Margaret Atwood (અનુવાદ- નીતા રામૈયા )
To a Moutain Daisy, On Turning One Down with the Plough in April, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r. Thou’s met … Continue reading Robert Burns- The Scottish Bard
Ghazal 1002: bidan dilfaribi ki giti namayad The wise ought not to set their hearts on the seductiveness the world … Continue reading THE SELECTED POETRY OF AMIR KHUSRAU
Poems in French, 1947-1949 my way is in the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune the summer rain … Continue reading “My way is in the sand flowing” – Samuel Beckett
I exist as I am,that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if … Continue reading SONG OF MYSELF – WALT WHITMAN(2)
A Thirsty Fish I don’t get tired of you. Don’t grow weary of being compassionate toward me! All this thirst … Continue reading The Essential Rumi
There was no ‘Noah’s Arc ‘; Nor was a ‘kurmavtaar ‘for him. It was the shore that sank the boundless … Continue reading A tribute – Nehal
No doubt: the sun dogged me when a child It followed at my heels like a Pekinese; dishevely and soft, … Continue reading Monterrey Sun- Alfonso Reyes
“ Poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness … Continue reading Emily Dickinson- Selected Poems (1)
These laborers of rain, these heavy clouds, see how evening takes them on celestial vacations; a delirium of … Continue reading Clouds- Rainer Maria Rilke
Clouds are hills in vapor, hills are clouds in stones,- a phantasy in time’s dream. – – – – – … Continue reading Clouds
A certain weariness I don’t want to be tired alone, I want you to grow tired along with me. How … Continue reading A certain weariness [Cierto cansancio]- Pablo Neruda