Reviews
So cute and so much love like SO MUCH. Finished this in an hour since there weren’t that many pages anyway :)
When I initially read the book as a single person, a lot of poems were confusing. I truthfully yearned to feel that way about someone or have someone feel that way about me. I thought, maybe I can read this again when I get married and it’ll be more relatable. A couple years later, reading it once again in a serious relationship, it has become a staple poetry book I suggest for those who want to know it feels like to admire someone so much you see them and feel them in everything.
"Years of yours that I should have felt growing near me like clusters until you had seen how the sun and the earth had destined you for my hands of stone, until grape by grape you had made the wine sing in my veins. The wind or the horse swerving were able to make me pass through your childhood, you have seen the same sky each day, the same dark winter mud, the endless branching of the plum trees and their dark-purple sweetness. Only a few miles of night, the drenched distances of the country dawn, a handful of earth separated us, the transparent walls that we did not cross, so that life, afterward, could put all the seas and the earth between us, and we could come together in spite of space, step by step seeking each other, from one ocean to another, until I saw that the sky was aflame and your hair was flying in the light and you came to my kisses with the fire of an unchained meteor and as you melted in my blood, the sweetness of the wild plum of our childhood I received in my mouth, and I clutched you to my breast as if I were regaining earth and life."
almost 1 year later she *finally* finished it
In English and Spanish. Sweet words of love. Lots of picking up and carrying around and feet worship.
This little book is just perfect. It's beautiful, it's just the right size, and it contains poems by Pablo Neruda. Poetry can be intimidating to read sometimes, but this book isn't at all. It's great to just have out and pick up whenever you feel like it to read a few poems. Love it.
