‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’ Poem by Pablo Neruda

‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’

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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 the 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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bruce Gatten 31 December 2010

Poems such as this literally take my breath away...such exquisite imagery, staggering yet reveals another aspect of nature & love; Neruda is such a beautiful poet, sane and perceptive, sober yet taken with divine eloquence...

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Linda Vazquez 07 October 2011

So much here but I especially like the phrase ' collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness'.

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Fubara Benstowe 14 January 2011

Amazing and beautiful, he painted his love in a very sweet voice of creativity

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Brian Jani 27 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out 

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Fabrizio Frosini 24 November 2015

“In the Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones”, expresses how romantic love fades. Like the waves of the ocean, Neruda expresses romantic love ebbing and flowing. [Tambl]

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Mahtab Bangalee 28 October 2020

Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence while the sea destroys its continual forms, .....we bear the sole, relentless tenderness/// excellent, most expressive; we the human, the being of tolerance everything in continual destruction of life; in this poem the deep struggle of human is hidden through the destroyer sea waves// great poem penned

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Kumarmani Mahakul 28 October 2020

the brightness bursts and bears the rose and the ring of water contracts to a cluster....This poem is very interestingly penned and a nice modern poem of the day is chosen.

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Edward Kofi Louis 28 October 2020

Pole, hole, whole! We bear the sole. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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O magnolia radiance breaking in spume, magnetic voyager whose death flowers and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness: shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean. Magnificent!

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Unnikrishnan E S 24 November 2018

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. What an imagery these words are able to conjure up! Magical,

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