Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Rainer Maria Rilke

One of my best friends is getting married, and I ran across this poem looking for something to read at the wedding. It is beautiful and simple. (And I haven't posted anything in months!)


Pathways

Understand, I'll slip quietly
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale
stars rising, blooming, over the oaks.

I'll pursue solitary pathways
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.

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