"Explosion" by Delmira Agustini

 

. . . If life is love, be blessed!

I want more life to love! Today I feel

a thousand years of its thought are not worth

one blue minute of the sentiment.

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. . . . My heart was dying sad and slow ...

Today it opens like a phoebean flower.

Life burst forth as a violent sea

where the hand of love strikes!

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. . . . Today departed for the night, my sad, cold

melancholy, of broken wings;

Like an old stain of ache 

in the distant shadow it dissolves ...

My whole life sings, kisses, laughs!

My whole life is, a mouth in bloom!