Hölderlin, an occurrence of chance & necessity
[In lovely blue…]
Friedrich Hölderlin, c. 1801-1807
Red Bird
Everything is seen & heard
The Bowl of Roses
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1907
Vita Nuova
Dante, 1292-4
In Durance
Ezra Pound, 1909
Twelve Moons
Selections from Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver, 1979
Into the Silent Land
excerpt from a book by Martin Laird, 2006
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
A poem-lesson on how to reach divine union, by St. John of the Cross, 1618