Friday Poetry: Rainer Maria Rilke

I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
by Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by Annemarie S. Kidder

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough
to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart.

...Read the rest here at Poets.org

...or read and listen to it as translated by Anita Barrows here. I have Barrows and Macy's book Rilke's Book of Hours; Love Poems to God and every once in a while I sink into them. It's been that kind of week.

The Poetry Friday round up is here this week! Share your post in Mr. Linky and be sure to leave a comment. Then come back later to enjoy what everyone else is posting this weekend.

ETA: Someone in the comments asked how to find the Friday Poetry roundup schedule and that reminded me that for new comers it's a bit confusing. Let me point you to the article by Susan Tompson of Chicken Spaghetti at the Poetry Foundation that explains Friday Poetry. Kelly Harold organizes the schedule of hosting and posts it in the sidebar of her blog Big A, little a. She puts out a call for volunteers several times a year. Anyone can join anytime of course! If you enjoy poetry jump in!

Click around to read some great poetry:

1. Wild Rose Reader (Three Original Poems about the Sounds of Summer)
2. Blue Rose Girls (A Poem by Richard Brautigan: Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's
3. Kelly (an original poem about Little Sioux Scout Camp)
4. Gregory K. (end of the school year, Hello Summer!)
5. Michele (W B Yeats)
6. Stacey (Sea Joy)
7. writer2b (Silence)
8. Sara Lewis Holmes (riff on a quote from Robert Frost)
9. Jama Rattigan (celebrating Father's Day with two poems: D. Nurkse and Edgar Guest)
10. Laura Salas (15 Words or Less Poems)
11. Laura Salas (Billy Collins poem)
12. Mary Lee (Poe and a review)
13. MotherReader (Our Deepest Fear)
14. Shelf Elf (Tap Dancing on the Roof)
15. Jules, 7-Imp (Choose Your Own Adventure)
16. Kimberly @ lectitans (The Mermaid in the Hospital)
17. Little Willow (Tarts and Evidence from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
18. msmac (Janet Wong’s Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams )
19. Sylvia (Father's Day poems)
20. Laurel Snyder (a poem about surfing and youth, by Mark Jarman)
21. Tricia (Summer Days)
22. Picture Book of the Day (Blackberry Banquet)
23. Karen Edmisten (Basho, Henry Timrod and an interesting connection to Bob Dylan.)
24. John Mutford (The Poem I Turn To)
25. Linda ("a sestina I wrote for my grandfather")
26. Tiel Aisha Ansari (an original flood poem)
27. Lisa Chellman (Peter, Paul & Mary)
28. Semicolon (Caedmon)
29. Kelly Fineman (So We'll Go No More a-Roving)
30. Becky (Surrender Tree review)
31. Ruth (where we are)
32. Liz in Ink (with Louise Gluck)
33. Chicken Spaghetti (poems about superstitions)
34. Marie DeVries (a poem about listening)
35. LisaC (AA Milne)
36. Charlotte ( In For Winter, Out For Spring)
37. Sarah R. (Cowboy Vernacular)
38. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (Mist by Tom Robinson)