Monday, December 8, 2008

To Music

The last couple lines of your poem reminded me of one of my all time favorite poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.

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To Music





Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:


silence of paintings. You language


where all language ends. You time


standing vertically on the motion of motal hearts.


Feelings for whom? O you the transformation


of feelings into what? --: into audible landscape.


You stranger: music. You heart-space


grown out of us. The deepest space in us,


which, rising above us, forces its way out,


--holy departure:when the innermost point in us stands


outside, as the most practiced distance,


as the otherside of the air:


pure,boundless,no longer habitable.
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Why does one write poetry? Question for the ages. Why does one think at all? Is philosiphizing a waste of time? Is just living enough? Or must we always question? So much so much.

hope you like this poem. I love his poetry.... hope you do too. I'll send something of my own soon, and talk about yours... which i liked very much.

love love and love

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