Variations on Pablo Neruda

[joannemerriam]

I've posted a new poem on Look Away.

Comments

[jenphetamine]

Pablo Neruda is my favorite poet. My friend Marian illustrated the cover of Love Poems. Your poem captures the spirit of his writing perfectly.

[joannemerriam]

That's a gorgeous cover.

That poem is a line-by-line satire of the original - "Ode to Enchanted Light" - which is one of my favourites of his.

There's actually two versions of this poem. The Antigonish Review version has "overflowering" (a typo they made which I really like) but Umbrella preferred "overflowing" (which is what I'd originally written, and is the word Neruda uses). I'm kind of on the fence but decided to use the overflowering version because it's not already available on the internet.