Tag Archives: Poetry
Give Birth to Your Images ~ Rilke
You must give birth
to your images
they are the future within you
wanting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness that you feel
The future has to enter us
long before it happens.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
FollowCompanioning ~ Wolfelt
In the spirit of Iteneris, this poem is also a traveler. I first obtained it from Teresa Smith-Dixon, a local hospice manager who shared it during the passing of a dear community member and wife of my friend and mentor, … Continue reading
Enough ~ David Whyte
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
~ David Whyte
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The … Continue reading
Love the Solitude ~ Rilke
Much that may one day be possible can already be prepared by the solitary individual, and built with his own hands which make fewer mistakes. Therefore love your solitude and bear the pain of it without self-pity. The distance you … Continue reading
Humble Living – Rumi
Humble living does not diminish. It fills.
Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
When a man makes up a story for his child,
he becomes a father and a child
together, listening.
~Rumi
Knots of Our Own Making
How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing –
each stone, blossom, child –
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each … Continue reading