"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization." -- A. R. Ammons
Poems, daily. Mostly English, alas. Please submit!
How many secrets we harbour
and have told the flowers,
so that in their graceful bowers
they tell us how strong is our ardour.
The stars are confused to their core
that all our problems we tell.
From the strongest to the most frail
none can put up any more
with our variable mood,
our revolts and our cries -
except the untiring table’s wood
and the bed (when the table’s died).
By Rainer Maria Rilke
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