Thursday, April 23, 2020

RAINER MARIA RILKE ~








Buddha In Glory




Center of all centers, core of cores,

almond, that closes tightly in and sweetens, —

this entire world out to all the stars

is your fruit-flesh: we greet you.



Look, you feel how nothing any longer

clings to you; your husk is in infinity,

and there the strong juice stands and crows.

And from outside a radiance assists it,



for high above, your suns in full splendor

have wheeled blazingly around.

Yet already there's begun inside you

what lasts beyond the suns.





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Rainer Maria Rilke
New Poems [ 1908 ]
translated by Edward Snow
North Point 1987