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| It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood afternoons you knew that vanished so completely --and why? We're still reminded--: sometimes by a rain,
as back then, when nothing happened to us
And became as lonely as a sheperd
Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| This is lovely and sad, Rilke is one of my favorites, but I never saw this one before, thanks |
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- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 2, 11 at 12:52
| Rilke's melancholic poems, lovely as they are, are not my favorites. I guess I am just too opimistic and upbeat most of the time. Lilo, the poem "Kindheit" is in Rilke's "Neue Gedichte". |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Wed, Feb 2, 11 at 19:55
| Kinda deep for me. I feel sorry for Rainer Maria Rilke and all the children he writes about. I'm thinking he must have had a traumatic childhood and he's writing from his experiences. |
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