Sonnet Xiii-The Light That Rises From Your Feet to Your Hair - Poem by Pablo Neruda
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7/21/2019 Sonnet Xiii-The Light That Rises From Your Feet to Your Hair - Poem by Pablo Neruda
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Sonnet Xiii:The Light That Rises
From Your Feet To Your Hair - Poem
by Pablo NerudaThe light that rises from your feet to your hair,
the strength enfolding your delicate form,
are not mother of pearl, not chilly silver:
you are made of bread, a bread the fire adores.
The grain grew high in its harvest of you,
in good time the flour swelled;
as the dough rose, doubling your breasts,
my love was the coal waiting ready in the earth.
Oh, bread your forehead, your legs, your mouth,
bread I devour, born with the morning light,my love, beacon-flag of the bakeries:
fire taugh you a lesson of the blood;
you learned your holiness from flour,
from bread your language and aroma.
Pablo Neruda