Rainer Poems - Poems about Rainer

...“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 ......Read the rest...

...(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 compl......Read the rest...

...- expressing buddhist psychology with the aid of quotes - '...we are doomed not to know the truth exactly ....(dainin katagri)' '...new meaning may...be......Read the rest...

...Deep 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 canop......Read the rest...

...New 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 f......Read the rest...

...This 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/interp......Read the rest...

...This 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 the Adriati......Read the rest...

...Sonnets 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 eye......Read the rest...

...Sonnets 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'......Read the rest...

...The Master of Nuances Supreme literary intensity Rainer Maria Rilke— Inspired as Orpheus sings Predilection for Die Dinge A mastery of true nuances A thirst for poetic symbols He sings now ......Read the rest...

...Liebes-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 hig......Read the rest...

...The 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 ......Read the rest...

...Come, 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 t......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Observance 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 an......Read the rest...