There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks
the clear light bursts and enacts its rose,
and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,
to one drop of blue salt, falling.
O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,
magnetic transient whose death blooms
and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever:
broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.
Sonnet Ix: There Where The Waves Shatter
Pablo Neruda
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Poem topics: I love you, death, light, rose, silence, together, water, forever, wild, blue, clear, bright, speed, broken, invisible, circle, permanent, love, I miss you, sea, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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