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Rainer Maria Rilke

@rainer-m-rilke

Poet and drifter. Writing about what I witness on my wanderings through Europe. All of the content on this profile are original poems written by myself.

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jan 14, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

Original Poem / If she's calm

after the sparrowhawk attack the talon-marks show a puncture-wound below each wing if the dove is quiet if she's calm bird-flesh heals fast

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jan 14, 2018, 1:35 PM UTC

Original Poem / How to Transcend

It can be any one of us. How to pass over limits, rise above needles in the hand finding a port in a vein? How to get over the prepping with marker pens, not writing but being written on? How to go b…

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jan 13, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

Original Poem / Snow seeks a form

I'll never arrive on moving land in shifting skies I need the map of another planet No valley or hill no roads, no cars in a white shell I'm hearing the sea who's hidden the stars? Snow seeks a form…

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jan 12, 2018, 6:24 PM UTC

Original Poem / The Glass Doctor

Rock crystal, a clear quartz. Ice-like, hope freezes in one of the living stones. Dipped in drinking water to protect against disease, it transfuses a bowlful with its gleam. The charmstone radiates…

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 25, 2017, 10:11 PM UTC

Original Poem / Two Haiku

I fetched you a drink in the glass, heart-shaped ice-cubes you didn't notice the moon bobs and swings through the blossoming branches silly little slice

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 25, 2017, 1:31 PM UTC

Original Poem / Two Haiku

wet to our skins our black umbrella waving no taxi stops the rain-laden leaves greeting my fingertips' touch with cool wet kisses

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 24, 2017, 1:17 PM UTC

Original Poem / Quietly Confident

the moon in competition with the streetlights is quietly confident

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 23, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

ORIGINAL POEM - Moonlight 🎴

moonlight glides in over the windowsill like the soporific tide of warm bath-water bubbles like the oiled slide of fingertips on soapy skin

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 23, 2017, 3:13 PM UTC

ORIGINAL POEM - The Hare

Where the hare rises like the wind over open space follow him going uphill watch him leap to break the trail near his resting-place in the boat-shaped trodden pad keeping his print grounded put a han…

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Rainer Maria Rilke
@rainer-m-rilke Jun 22, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

[ORIGINAL POEM] Lime

it's the time for lime citrus zest of sex the bitter sublime taste of fresh -ness sweet crime of new birth lines a grime-free regeneration sign life which beats sunbeams which bleach skins like moist…

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