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Rilke Poems - Poems about Rilke

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Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, spring,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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 compl......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Clerihew Rilke
...Ranier Maria Rilke a poet&writer was he Many a letter he also wrote useful if you require a quote......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Met-A Mechanic-Called Mind
...- 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...
Categories: rilke, absence, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Other
Acqua Santa Sacred Water
...they say I'm bella and alluring i am when on thin strings in night fog or in droplets in the morning grass... They say I'm wonderful, and wonderful I am, when I quench thirst of the thirsty......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, allegory, allusion, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Light Verse



Thinking In Cliches Is Itself a Cliche
...What have been sayin’ It's only Saturday Thinking in cliches is itself a cliche Father in the kitchen Eats his check away Thinking in cliches is itself a cliche Don’t you shake and shiver ......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, confusion, education, emotions, extended
Form: Lyric
I Live In Duino
...I live in Duino Where my friends' sweet messages motivate me to look at the glowing sun every morning I live in Duino Where sea waves Remind me of how beautiful the world is Walking......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, appreciation, confidence, friend, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
...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...
Categories: rilke, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
A Poem That Starts With a Line From Rilke
...‘Here among the vanishing ones, in the realm of decline’ body parts of ghosts remain to haunt each other. Morning is taken with just a slice of lemon the tears of the lost milk the cup. The older......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Idea of You
...A deep brown collar, lurking from underneath the green plaid coat. A smirk on your face, as you turned the page of your favorite book. “To define is to limit”, I feel my maroon muffler tighten ......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, crush, dark, dream, longing,
Form: Free verse
Prose Poems
...Prose Poems Something by Michael R. Burch Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immea......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, animal, child, childhood, children,
Form: Prose
New Year Poems I
...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...
Categories: rilke, birth, celebration, change, firework,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Broken Fountain Pen Disaster
...The Broken Fountain Pen Disaster Underfoot the dropped was-so-lost pen breaks snapping its midnight ink artery to spurt explosively out like some imprisoned force nearly dead but up again suckin......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, art, imagery,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Broken Fountain Pen Diaster
...The Broken Fountain Pen Disaster Underfoot the dropped was-so-lost pen breaks snapping its midnight ink artery to spurt explosively out like some imprisoned force nearly dead but risen sucking i......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, art, christian, imagery, rainforest,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Shoe Dreams
...After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again. Shoe Dreams Is th......Read the rest...
Categories: rilke, art, body, christian, dance,
Form: Prose

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