Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda
My best friend Bradley introduced me to the awesome poetry of Pablo Neruda. He paid me one of the best compliments I've ever received by telling me that my poetry was similar to that of the great Neruda. You can read my poetry on the Allpoetry.com website. But here is one of the classics of love poetry ever written. Shakespeare eat dust!
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XVII (100 Love Sonnets, 1960)
I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
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