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on Whoever Brought Me Here by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, on August 18
Profound thoughts, questions...the final stanza is so strong, I had to reread the poem.

I find such reassurance in 'I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home'
on Out Beyond Ideas by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, on August 18
I've read this in translation as 'beyond the marketplace of night and day / there is a field...'

so I think he is talking about eternal life, and union with the Beloved (the merging of opposites)
on Torso of an Archaic Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke, on July 18

Oh my
He wrote this poem after he'd been dead for 26 years? lol.
on Torso of an Archaic Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke, on July 18
This is a strong and wonderful poem, and one I read again and again, each time finding something new to ponder. Rilke always rhymed, and the translation doesn't, so here is a link to an animated film of him reading this poem; the translation there, very different to this, also rhymes, although it is not credited to anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szRxIdokT6Y