Every angel's terrifying

of all Beginning -

                                              

                                 

                                              seed of a blossoming god,

hinges of light,

hallways,                  stairways,

                                               thrones,

spaces of being,

                                     force fields of ecstasy, 

storms of unchecked rapture,                                                    

                                           

                                                  and suddenly                                       

                                                                                                  separate,

mirrors: 

Rilke

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I flow

To

the

                                                       

                                        rushing

water speak: I am.

Rilke

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Flowers of the deeper earth levels

loved

by 

all

roots

Rilke

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Facing the sky XXII

Flowers of the deeper earth levels

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Titles from an unofficial Rilke 

translated by Michael Hamburger 

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Who sings the distant heart

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God or goddess of the sleep of cats

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an unknowing herb breaks into blossom

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Into his blood

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As long as self-thrown things you catch

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this your glorious heart-space

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Beyond it at last

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O fall of stars

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And we: listeners at last. The first human listeners.

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homeless here on the heart's mountains...

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no longer difficult

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I dare be in you

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always unhoused imperishableness

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My shy moon-shadow would like to talk

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among the wild flowers, facing the sky

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So might a girl all at once through the bars of her

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for her he loves and spoils her with felt skies

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half the heavens swept up in the motion

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Facing the sky III

into its spaces the meteor would spin...

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Facing the sky II

May to me

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Facing the sky

circling in its invisible orbit

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Tenderly darkened XXVI

O

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