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Poetry From The Sea
It’s Day 2 of National Poetry Month, and if you haven’t caught the spirit yet, here’s a lifeline from Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda.
This excerpt is from On the Blue Shore of Silence, an anthology of Neruda’s poems about the sea — a fitting collection for any home library in our island community.
Forget About Me
No Me Hagan Caso
Among the things the sea throws up,
let us hunt for the most petrified,
violet claws of crabs,
little skulls of dead fish,
smooth syllables of wood,
small countries of mother-of-pearl;
let us look for what the sea undid
insistently, carelessly,
what it broke up and abandoned,
and left behind for us.
Read on: HarperCollins.
Subscribe: Knopf’s Poem-A-Day for April.
Print: Nature’s Curiosities II by Chad Barrett
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