I met someone who loves Rilke. I love Rilke. Can Rilke bring people together and move hearts to new, better places in the digital age? Yes, I think he can.<\/p>\n
Below are some stanzas from Rilke that I simply had to write down. They are each their own little writing workshop on love that is honed so sharp it draws blood. I welcome anyone out there reading this to respond to some of these lines. It is good for the heart. A new way of seeing might occur. We all need new ways to see, even from windowless rooms stocked with VHS instructional tapes to improve Americans.<\/p>\n
Don’t you sense me, ready to break<\/i><\/p>\n
into being at your touch?<\/i><\/p>\n
Your wholeness cascades into many shapes<\/i><\/p>\n
You run like a herd of luminous deer<\/i><\/p>\n
and I am dark, I am forest…<\/i><\/p>\n
Luminous deer! Who doesn’t want to be described as that? It is beauty beyond measure. It’s a great rock band name, too, and a great visual for a large tattoo across a back of someone who lives life like a luminous deer. These people are very few in our country.<\/p>\n
You are not surprised at the force of the storm–<\/i><\/p>\n
you have seen it growing…<\/i><\/p>\n
Now you must go out into your heart<\/i><\/p>\n
as onto a vast plain. Now<\/i><\/p>\n
the immense loneliness begins…<\/i><\/p>\n
I know that nothings has ever been real<\/i><\/p>\n
without my beholding it.<\/i><\/p>\n
All becoming has needed me.<\/i><\/p>\n
My looking ripens things<\/i><\/p>\n
and they come toward me, to meet and be met.<\/i><\/p>\n
That line…my looking ripens things<\/i>…feels true to me in my current situation. I am looking where no other American writer has ever looked. My looking is ripening the irreality of a deadly administrative organism in American life. My looking is bearing poems that call out for a deeper look. At long last, I am learning to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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