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A Walk

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, tagged on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has its inner light, even from a distance—
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a gesture waves us on, answering our [...]

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I Believe In…

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say:
May what I do flow from me like a river
no forcing [...]

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The Book of Monastic Life I,59 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Posted in Inspiration, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality, tagged , on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going.  [...]

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Rumi and Rilke: A Found Poem

Posted in Life, Love, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, Spirituality on December 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Here is another “found” poem I have created.  This time I’ve brought Rumi and Rilke together.  No small task!  Great poets they were but not contemporaries as are Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry in my previous found poem.  This particular found poem starts with two lines from a Rumi poem and then alternates with Rilke’s [...]

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Autumn Day – Rilke

Posted in Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Lord: it is time. The huge summer has gone by.
Now overlap the sundials with your shadows,
and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Command the fruits to swell on tree and vine,
grant them a few more warm transparent days,
urge them onto fulfillment then, and press
the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now, [...]

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The Book of Pilgrimage II,12 This Life

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This poem is from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.
It is written that Rilke received these poems in what he called
“inner dictations”.  Anita Barrows describes it as: “words that
came to him mornings and evenings and that struck him with
their force and persistence.”  Yet the publication of these
poems was delayed and for a few [...]

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Second Part: The Sonnets to Orpheus I

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
interchange of our own
essence with world-space. You counterweight
in which I rhythmically happen.
Single wave-motion whose
gradual sea I am;
you, most inclusive of all our possible seas –
space grown warm.
How many regions in space have already been
inside me. There are winds that seem like
my wandering son.
Do you recognize me, air, full of places I [...]

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World was in the face of the beloved

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

World was in the face of the beloved –,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.
Why didn’t I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn’t I drink
world, so near that I could almost taste it?
Ah, I drank.  Insatiably I drank.
But I was [...]

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Only As A Child

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Ones,
Each time that I read Rainer Maria Rilke I am touched.  Sometimes there are tears of joy, sometimes tears of knowing.  Always I feel as if we are peering through the same window of Life and he has put what my heart feels onto paper.  When I find music that I like, I will [...]

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The Dark Embraces Everything

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

You, darkness, of whom I am born –
I love you more than the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illumines
and excludes all the rest.
But the darkness embarces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations–just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.

Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems [...]

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