Showing posts with label Labels: Ich komme aus meinen Schwingen heim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labels: Ich komme aus meinen Schwingen heim. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Sobriety: 26 years



 













Càrn Mhuinge by Dougie Beck


Ich komme aus meinen Schwingen heim by Rainier Maria Rilke

I come home from the soaring in which I lost myself.
I was song, and the refrain which is God
is still roaring in my ears.

Now I am still
and plain:
no more words.

To the others I was like a wind:
I made them shake.
I’d gone very far, as far as the angels,
and high, where light thins into nothing.

But deep in the darkness is God.


 -from Rilke's Book of Hours – Love Poems to God


As I have since this blog's inception, on the day of my sobriety anniversary I publish this treasured Rilke poem, but with a new image each year.


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