Today I am reading sonnet XVI from Pablo Neruda's collection 100 Love Sonnets.
Neruda, a Chilean poet, wrote an incredible amount of poetry during the early to mid-1900s. Much of his work has not been translated to English, and if I could read Spanish better, I would have read the Spanish version of this poem, too.
While most people know Neruda for his love poetry, his later writing was also very political. He was a communist, and because of his out spoken views, he was forced to flee from his home country and live in exile for several years.
To learn more about Neruda, click on the link:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pablo-neruda
