It’s the birth day of: Rainer Maria Rilke (b. 1875)

Written by Rilke (translated by C. F. MacIntyre):

Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know each bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.
Then with your eyes that wearily
scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone
slowly you raise a shadowy black tree
and fix it on the sky: slender, alone.
And you have made the world (and it shall grow
and ripen as a word, unspoken, still).
When you have grasped its meaning with your will,
then tenderly your eyes will let it go.

“Pour yourself like a fountain….”

“Earth’s Intelligence”

 

 “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ”
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours: A Complete New Translation with Commentary)

“Parting the Crows”

My poem “Parting the Crows” has been published in Barnwood.  Thank you to Editor Tom Koontz!

http://web.mac.com/tomkoontz/Site_18/Thompson.html