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Love Sonnet LXXXIX
We asked LMNOP contributing photographer, Monika Elena to share with us how she celebrates Valentines day. “Every year I attempt a poem for my husband and now that I have a two year-old daughter, cupcakes are a must!” says Monika. “To me Valentines is a fabulous excuse to celebrate more love. I mean who can have too much love in this chaotic world? I am a big poetry fan … here’s one of my favorite poems by Pablo Neruda.”
Love Sonnet LXXXIX
When I die, I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me once more:
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you
to sniff the sea’s aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.
I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else
to continue to flourish, full-flowered:
so that you can reach everything my love directs you to,
so that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.
Linde says:
I teared up! Lovely photography and lovely poem. I love Neruda too. Happy V-Day!
joanna goddard says:
lovely.