Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Altitude
dear self,
A day is a day to
pick up those little shards.
Escape into Life.
Chart a map, run the fields, and
follow the sun till it rises again.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Three Seconds of Eternity
“Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time,
not the wasting of time but the spending of time.”
-Sir Robert Doisneau
Evening
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven and one that falls;
and leave you not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what becomes a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
-Rilke
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