Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The King of Time Knows

For my choice of a photo go here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edanial/5366916225/

From Rainer Marie Rilke

(Especially for Sisters and Brothers of my Deepest Heart during Ramzan/Ramadan)

From Rilke's Book of Hours:  Love Poems From God

"And God said to me, Paint:

Time is the canvas
stretched by my pain:
the wounding of woman,
the brothers’ betrayal,
the city’s sad bacchanals,
the madness of kings.

And God said to me, Go forth:

For I am king of time.
But to you I am only the shadowy one who knows with you your loneliness and sees through your eyes. "   

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I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy.
I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
just to stand before you like a thing,
dark and shrewd.
I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,
and never to be too blind or too old
to hold your heavy, swaying image.
I want to unfold.
Nowhere do I want to remain folded,
because where I am bent and folded, there I am lie.
And I want my meaning
true for you. I want to describe myself
like a painting that I studied
closely for a long, long time,
like a word I finally understood,
like the pitcher of water I use every day ,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that carried me
through the deadliest storm of all.
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A Walk
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

7 comments:

robert said...

Greetings,

Thank you for this.

Beautiful words that have lightened my day.

All good wishes,

robert

robert said...
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robert said...

I accidentally posted my comment twice. Hence, the deletion.

Love this x 2 :).

All good wishes,

robert

CN said...

So glad you saw/felt the light in this post. And you coming by has lightened my day as well.

Such circles provide community even from afar.

Heartfelt gratitude and prayers.

Akhtar Wasim Dar said...

Thanks for this lovely Eid gift Connie.

CN said...

You are most welcome, AWD.

CN said...

Be sure to see No More Crusades as well.