You Who Never Arrived - Rainer Maria Rilke

"You Who Never Arrived" poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
You
who never arrived
in my arms
Beloved
who were lost from the start.
I don't even know what songs would please you.
I have given up trying to recognize you
in the surging wave of the next moment.
All the immense images in me
the far-off but deeply-felt --
landscape,
cities,
towers,
and bridges.
The unsuspected
turns in the path.
And those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods.
All rise within me
to mean,
You --
who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing.
An open window in a country house
and you almost stepped out
pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon
you had just walked down them
and vanished.
Who knows?
perhaps the same bird echoed
through both of us
yesterday,
separate,
in the evening ...
Filming and narration by Kathryn Oliver
www.kathrynoliver.com

Пікірлер: 15

  • @loisthiessen9134
    @loisthiessen91342 жыл бұрын

    such a wonderful reading and visual rendition of this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke! Thank you!

  • @kbeetles
    @kbeetles4 жыл бұрын

    How beautiful - words and pictures evoking the soul's unabated longing for ever....for the One. The other one? The same?

  • @DuaneHHLyon
    @DuaneHHLyon Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @RichardSzmyd
    @RichardSzmyd4 жыл бұрын

    This is so beautiful. You've really combined some wonderful images with Rilke's poem which is one of my favorites. Also, Priesner's music is perfect with this. Thank you!

  • @festivalonearth

    @festivalonearth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @phillipbingham487
    @phillipbingham4873 жыл бұрын

    very surreal

  • @jylyhughes5085
    @jylyhughes50854 жыл бұрын

    Sublime!

  • @leelachatterjee4610
    @leelachatterjee46102 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful imagery!

  • @festivalonearth

    @festivalonearth

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you.

  • @marykochan8962
    @marykochan89624 жыл бұрын

    Amazing how this ties in with what I have been doing on my Channel about masculine and feminine. Loved it. I've put a link to video in the first comment under mine. Blessings to you.

  • @festivalonearth

    @festivalonearth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mary that is lovely! I will check out what are up to. Thanks for commenting :)

  • @josephkemler6979
    @josephkemler69792 жыл бұрын

    Read him when young...

  • @karinliane547
    @karinliane5473 жыл бұрын

    Doch. Verliebt. bin Ich in. Mein. Leben Dafür lohnt sichs. auf.zu. Stehen 🌴🦩♥️💟♥️🦩🌴

  • @karinliane547
    @karinliane5473 жыл бұрын

    I is. simular to Me. at Home Loving. a. Phantom Not. a. Man 💟♥️💟🦩💟🌹💟