The poet R.M. Rilke has probably had the greatest impact on me of any writer. These poems were written in gratitude to him during 2005. © 2005 under Marissa Mullins.
Like Love
The Great Gift given
was not as simple
as your words.
Rather,
Like Love,
The emotion created by them.
Such simple little things
To grow such beauty
Out of stagnant air –
Fresh breath to a new
Century unlike the one
You came from.
We are Different –
Too busy, too smart, too …
We cannot perceive our own
Needfulness, do not realize
How Badly we need words
Like Yours –
Beauty flowing across
A white page of time.
It was all in the speaking
I look to where you saw —
wonder at the common tune
which seems to play itself
on both our instruments:
music goes on forever in our minds.
I see – here, there
A common chord. Same song
Sung by different voices
Years and times apart.
You are part of my heritage,
German Poet –
Souls and citizenship in common.
I would have liked
To meet you, have come
To know you, believe
We must be friends.
Beautiful………you are very talented.
love and prayers, andrea
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