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Tag Archives: Rainer Maria Rilke
A Song
My ears already hear the morning lark. Listening far beyond my sight I have begun. So we absorb what we seem to not touch; it vibrates us, even from a distance – and fills us, even if we do not … Continue reading
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Tagged breath, daily poems, music, NaPoWriMo, Rainer Maria Rilke, songs
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Rilke
Where did you find the most inspiration, as each line cut like a diamond-edged drill through layers of effluvia that still the seeking heart? Was it your frustration with a cold and unfeeling world, that sought to silence any expression … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, daily poems, loss, Rainer Maria Rilke, sonnet, worship
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Sonnets of Osiris
As winter extends its grip on the land, clutching with long alabaster fingers and leaving remnants of a leprous hand where its frigid probing touch still lingers, deep in the cold soil, where the dormant root, its life spark quiet … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, Hymns to Orpheus, Osiris, Rainer Maria Rilke, sonnet
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A Modern Erasmus
When I have a little money, I do not buy food or other such trivialities. I buy books. – Erasmus Ah, as Lawrence Olivier might say in one of his Nazi- or vampire-hunting roles … “I haf enlarged ze library … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Erasmus, Henry Miller, Johann von Goethe, Knut Hamsun, Laurence Olivier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney
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