Short Rainer Poems

Half moon hovers over Mt. Rainer
as a not yet setting sun
begins to pull the shades
Ravens gather in their ready
daily journey winged too roost.......

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Like Loading Cattle In Seattle

When we will spend time in Seattle,
We would like loading lots of cattle;
See Rainer;
Docile deer;
What to do next, we had big battle.

Jim Horn
Lived in Redmond, WA near Seattle
from August 1976 to May 2001.
Really liked it but too expensive....

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( Das Land ist licht und dunkel ist die Laube - Rainer Maria Rilke)

The land is light but dark the arbor
Your face broken with hair, hands
Curled in your lap,you sleep under greenery

The morning has stopped,do not fear
That I will ever leave your shadow,let me
While in the coolness, here and eternal....

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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 with Orpheus
And the angels in Heaven.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
December 5, 2016 (Verse)...

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so simple a star,
for oh so long
it glitters, in my eyes —
still alive.

living things have walked this path
in love, excited, lonely and ragged.

do stars fall like rain or snow?
do they stop the cuckoo clock?

the sky — like the sea manifest,
a prayer to touch.
pondering the last star —
is it the same as the first?
is it close to my heart
or far?

is it perhaps Rilke’s white city?*

perhaps...perhaps

12/17/2018

*Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke...

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