Poetry Reading
In honor of the Feast of Brigid (Groundhog Day), some in the blogosphere are celebrating by posting poems for the Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading (HT: bookgirl). Following below is my contribution.
“Love Song”
Rainer Maria RilkeHow can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin’s bow,
which draws one voice out of two seperate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song.Translated by Stephen Mitchell
almost any poem by rilke sounds good to me
here’s a tiny one from me (not to be compared with the above, please)
laughing so much
in the wind & rain
we almost fell
off our bikes
That’s a lovely poem. Nostalgic, pretty vivid. =)
(Sorry that I didn’t reply right away, it’s been pretty hectic.)