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Pablo Neruda - Drunk As Drunk

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.

Added: on January 10th, 2005 at 6:05 AM | Viewed: 17905 times | Comments (3)


Drunk As Drunk - Comments and Information

Poet: Pablo Neruda
Poem: Drunk As Drunk

Poem of the Day on:
Nov 18 2004

Comment 3 of 3, added on February 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 AM.

this poem is good but i can do better

peter burns
Comment 2 of 3, added on December 26th, 2005 at 11:19 PM.

What an excellent poem!

sima
Comment 1 of 3, added on January 10th, 2005 at 6:05 AM.

One of the loveliest, most evocative poems ever. Thank God for creating Pablo Neruda, surely one of the greats! Te amo...

martita from United States

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