Life Deserves Poetry

I've been thinking recently that there is just not enough poetry in our lives. We're too busy to appreciate poetic moments, hustling by without even a glance. And the words we find and use in this world are rushed, hectic, condensed to fit on a text screen or wordsmithed so that they aren't beautiful and powerful but simply concise and pithy enough to make a decent sound byte. What a pity - we're losing so much!

Thus, I am going to try to remember to post a favorite poem, couplet, or phrase here every now and again as a way to take that moment's pause that's necessary to appreciate the beauty all around us every day.

A Walk
by Rainer Maria Rilke

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance--

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.