[To P.]
You who finally arrived
into my arms, Beloved, who have found
at long last,
I discover the melodies of songs
that please you. I am delighted
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment. All the immense
images in me - - the picturesque, deeply-familiar landscape,
links, paths, and traces, and surprising
twists in the narrative,
and those arcane lands that now
pulse with the life of the divine -
all expound within me to mean
you, who forever inspire me.
You, Beloved, who are all
the scapes I have dreamt of,
now real. An open window
in a white room - -, and you in embrace
stepped out, welcoming, to find me.
Dreams that I dwelt upon, - -
You weaved them elegant into actuality.
And somewhere, at a café, the screen
beamed and glinted with your presence and, in awe,
found my own image beside. Who knew?
that the same ballad echoed through both of us
this evening, together, beneath stars…
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Based on You Who Never Arrived by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ahead of All Parting:
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell
1982 Random House
A definition of mimesis.
5 redmarks:
mimesis. i didn't know there was a proper term for it. haha
@Nyl Me neither. :)
What a fateful night that was... :)
Hmmmm. Napa research tuloy ako sa mimesis. cool.
"you who arrived" --> ayiii!! la lang. :P
@~Carrie~ It was really between day and night.
@Toilet Thoughts Haha. Chismoso!
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