Rilke - Sonnets To Orpheus 12 Poem by Michael Maxwell Steer

Silent companion of the endless spaces
feel your breath expand the lonely night -
your-self the bell you toll in shadowy belfries
to celebrate the dawning of the light.

You are at once the soil and the seed -
your business is with transformation.
What are the areas of your greatest need?
See in them the source of your salvation.

At darkest point of night, to find your power
to generate the dawn you must locate
the crossroads of your senses and their signature;
and if, friendless within this strange encounter,
you feel yourself forgotten, dedicate
to earth your flow - your inmost self to water.


A free version of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus Bk2.29
Stiller Freund der vielen Fern, fühle,

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