Can you not sometimes feel how all pasts
grow light, when you’ve lived a while,
how they gently prepare you for amazement,
companion each feeling with images,— 29 more words
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Rainer Maria Rilke
A Voice for the Voiceless ~ A Poetry Challenge
There is in the land
a rising chorus of the Voiceless
Those who while in the system
remain outside of it
They’re the Invisible
Some have simply lost their way… 332 more words
You Who Never Arrived
Every now and then you come across a poem that simply takes your breath away. One such poem that moved me immensely is Rilke’s “You who never arrived”. 1,209 more words
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower - Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29
Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you. 84 more words
A Tip to Start Off the Week
Late last week I was honored to speak at an interfaith celebration where my daughter, who calls herself a Quaker, sang her heart out with other young Buddhists from her Sunday school! 172 more words
Featured Poem: The Song of the Beggar by Rainer Maria Rilke
This week’s Featured Poem comes from Rainer Maria Rilke, an influential Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, thought to be one of the most lyrically-intense German-language writers. 728 more words
Quotes from "Letters to a Young Poet" #3
On aloneness:
389 more wordsDo not allow yourself to be confused in your aloneness by the something within you that wishes to be released from it. This very wish, if you will calmly and deliberately use it as a tool, will help to expand your solitude into far distant realms.
