Thursday, June 11, 2009

the weather is here, wish you were beautiful

it's june gloom glorious here.

and i dig it. i want to eat it with a spoon. oh, want something else tasty? read THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!


I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Annemarie S. Kidder

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small
enough
to be to you just object and thing,
dark and smart.
I want my free will and want it accompanying
the path which leads to action;
and want during times that beg questions,
where something is up,
to be among those in the know,
or else be alone.

I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection,
never be blind or too old
to uphold your weighty wavering reflection.
I want to unfold.
Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent;
for there I would be dishonest, untrue.
I want my conscience to be
true before you;
want to describe myself like a picture I observed
for a long time, one close up,
like a new word I learned and embraced,
like the everday jug,
like my mother's face,
like a ship that carried me along
through the deadliest storm.

5 of you said:

richard dandelion said...

I will see your opaque 20th C. German poem and raise you an opaque 19th C. German poem:

The Half of Life
With yellow pears the country,
Brimming with wild roses,
Hangs into the lake,
You gracious swans,
And drunk with kisses
Your heads you dip
Into the holy lucid water.

Where, ah where shall I find,
When winter comes, the flowers,
And where the sunshine
And shadows of the earth?
Walls stand
Speechless and cold, in the wind
The weathervanes clatter.

—Friedrich Hölderlin (trans. Christopher Middleton)

Sherry Carpet said...

sherry likee

:-)

Nicea said...

"I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough to be to you just object and thing,"

Love this part.

dana said...

funny, i was just about to do a similar (yet polar) post about how all North-westerns are in love with this weather and why I HATE it. I'll be happy though that someone wants to eat it up. I'm sure the 100 degree temperatures will be here soon enough.

Sherry Carpet said...

nicea, i know! glad you liked it too. at least that part.

dana, when i'm sweltering in july i will remember how you and others love it and try to be more appreciative!