Monthly Archives: January 2016

Dreadfulness and Bliss – The Genius of Rainer Maria Rilke

January 31, 2016 – 6:13 pm

from Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, # 29 Let This Darkness Be Your Bell Tower Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth […]

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To Soul or Not to Soul – Poems on Soul!

January 16, 2016 – 8:18 pm

Oh, I Said My subject is the soul Difficult to talk about, Since it is invisible, Silent and often absent. Even when it shows itself In the eyes of a child Or a dog without a home, I’m at a loss for words. Charles Simic (1938 – )  from THE LUNATIC, HarperCollins Publishers, 2015 Earlier […]

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