Social Media Ideas for Rainer Maria Rilke

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

"You’ll long for me when I’m gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"

Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love

"Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

RAMBLING

 one man loved the pilgrim soul in you...

Astra, doing poetry

One prompt, no cherry-picking: TC: “Now a short poem in the style of the very best Rilke, in German:” Die Hand im Schlaf Nun liegt sie offen. Alles, was sie hielt, ist in die eigne...

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt...

The Poem He Wrote For Her

Let me in....

Die Wahrheit: Kanzlerkerl

Donnerstag ist Gedichtetag auf der Wahrheit: Heute darf sich die geneigte Leserschaft an einem Poem über Nachfolger des Kanzlers erfreuen. mehr...

poem and quote

via @di.courtois via @michaelpoetryy via @thejournal2000 <3 Read more

Die Wahrheit: Oktoberfesterkenntnis

Donnerstag ist Gedichtetag auf der Wahrheit: Heute darf sich die geneigte Leserschaft an einem Poem über ein Paar auf dem Volksfest erfreuen. mehr...

The Silence

When first the soul contemplates secret things,...

Corrective for a Broken Heart

“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures,...

to poets everywhere

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The Map to the Route of Your Life

No one will map for you the path by which you must cross the wilderness of your own life — not your parents or your teachers, not your heroes or your lovers, not the self-help book...

Ronin

The hand remembers...

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’"

Raimund von Zur-Mühlen

A continuing exploration of the self

Poetry remains one of the arts most capable of approaching the unknown without ever fully surrendering it to explanation. A poet may come close to what he seeks, yet refuses the ea...

Danse Macabre

in these silent dead hours...

Him

My nostalgic poetic addicted man...

Buch der Geliebten François Mitterrands: Dafür kommen wir also auf die Welt … für die Galeere

Erstmals auf Deutsch: „Renata wasweißich“. Catherine Guérard schrieb in den 60ern über entfremdete Arbeit und den Wunsch, als Frau ein freies Leben zu führen. mehr...

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fert...

There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a pai...

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i saw each petal fall from my garden....

Born to Die

Waves that roll gently onto an empty shore,...

a worry of love

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