the names of things - a photo on Flickriver

            I was there with the first mythmakers and monks
who made up your stories, traced your runes.

But now I see you:
wind, woods, and water,
roaring at the edge of Christendom---
you, land,
to be left in darkness.

I want to utter you. I want to portray you
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image that I could invent 
that your presence would not eclipse.

I want, then, simply
to say the names of things.
I'll leave aside kings and their lineages, 
their deeds and battles.

For you are the ground. 
Their ages to you are only seasons.
You look on the near no differently than the far,
and if they've learned to plant you more deeply
or build more grandly upon you,

you barely feel it. You hear
neither sower nor reaper
when their footsteps pass over you.
-----Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Joanna Macy
   

Taken on: February 25, 2011

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