Long Rainer Poems
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ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
rainer, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
rainer, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
rainer, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
rainer, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
rainer, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
rainer, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
rainer, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
rainer, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Rilke Translations IArchaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
rainer, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
rainer, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
rainer, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True LoveDeep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy...
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Categories:
rainer, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
Come, You: the Death Poem of Rainer Maria RilkeCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Come, you--the last one I acknowledge; return--
incurable pain searing this physical mesh.
As I burned in the spirit once, so now I burn
with you; meanwhile, you consume...
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Categories:
rainer, cancer, death, depression, fire, health, pain, surreal,
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: Love SongLiebes-Lied (“Love Song”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
How can I withhold my soul so that it doesn’t touch yours?
How can I lift mine gently to higher things, alone?
Oh, I would gladly find...
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Categories:
rainer, dark, love, muse, music, song, soulmate, space,
Form:
Verse
Last-Minute Autumn dodoitsu series (rhymed)
Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.
You who have no house to own,
too proud to seek charity,
you choose your path all alone
that’s...
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Categories:
rainer, 11th grade, home, winter, word play, work,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Who Am IWho am I?
I live amongst the clouds; converging all around the clock. My bottom is so very far away from my tippy-tippy-top.
I live among my range, yet stand out from all above.
Ice and rock...
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Categories:
rainer, analogy, art, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
WaterWater
To obey no law, but gravities very
own and harbor so much life; so
much death.
Power in every ounce to sway to an
unheard rhythm danced by only
streams,
lakes and rivers. Yes they feel...
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Categories:
rainer, beauty, birth, body, confusion, creation, death, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Sonata Poetry Contest--Snapshots of Spring“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Medusa cactus
in large blue ceramic pot
blooms a burst of sunshine
over her green appendages.
A sparrow narrowly escapes
from...
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Categories:
rainer, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Met-A Mechanic-Called Mind- expressing buddhist psychology with the aid of quotes -
'...we are doomed not to know the truth exactly
...
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Categories:
rainer, absence, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form:
Other
Torso of Miletus(On Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, The Louvre, Paris)
Antiquity is rarely of one piece
as this torso is witness to – no head,
no arms, no legs, no genitals. Yet Time
has not dismembered him completely
for there is left...
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Categories:
rainer, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
On Seeing a Photograph-2On seeing a photograph
“Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence”
...
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Categories:
rainer, death, grief, war,
Form:
Free verse
Raining Love LettersWith Rainer
I would rain love letters
into this Universe
but, once started,
how could such love expressed
ever warmly end
with grateful sufficiency?
Grace unfolding within each well-placed letter
forming welcoming word families
drawn into long healthy and love-filling sentences
recomposing polypathic paragraphs,
regimes of...
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Categories:
rainer, culture, health, integrity, language, love,
Form:
Free verse
Marriage: the CrucibleWork of the eyes is done, now
go and do heart work
on all the images imprisoned
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Crucible: A severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial.
and
...
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Categories:
rainer,
Form:
I do not know?
Rilke Translation: Autumn DayAutumn Day
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Lord, it is time. Let the immense summer go.
Lay your long shadows over the sundials
and over the meadows, let the free winds blow.
Command the late fruits...
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Categories:
rainer, autumn, leaving, time,
Form:
Sonnet