Icons

[doyle]

This icon page rocks. I'm pinching a bunch of these for later use. And there's a set to Phenomenal Woman, which is one of my favourite poems ever! I keep meaning to track down that Pablo Neruda poem I love and bully someone into making me icons of the final lines.

Ah, here it is.



I thought I was dying, I felt the cold up close
and knew that from all my life I left only you behind:
my earthly day and night were your mouth,
your skin the republic my kisses founded.


In that instant the books stopped,
and friendship, treasure relentlessly amassed,
the transparent house that you and I built:
everything dropped away, except your eyes.


Because while life harasses us, love is
only a wave taller than the other waves:
but oh, when death comes knocking at the gate,


there is only your glance against so much emptiness,
only your light against extinction,
only your love to shut out the shadows.