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Continued:

"I continue to hold to the idea that speaking words of #beauty reminds us of the possibility of language.

And especially in weeks when we hear the impoverishment of speech from many quarters, it is good to bask in something uplifting, to remind us of the power of language to do that most risky thing: to make something new.

So, here by #RainerMariaRilke is poem 59, Book I:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

I.59, translated by Joanna Macey & Anita Burrows & collected in their Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead Books, 2005)

Vulnerable language can help us find space to address the threats in our lives. ... From where I am, I try to do my bit to address the frailties of the human condition with courage rather than rage. May we be nurtured by the kind of presence that gave rise to Rilke’s language."

#PádraigÓTuama

https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/courage-and-rage-re-sending-now-open

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Continued:

"I continue to hold to the idea that speaking words of #beauty reminds us of the possibility of language.

And especially in weeks when we hear the impoverishment of speech from many quarters, it is good to bask in something uplifting, to remind us of the power of language to do that most risky thing: to make something new.

So, here by #RainerMariaRilke is poem 59, Book I:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

I.59, translated by Joanna Macey & Anita Burrows & collected in their Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead Books, 2005)

Vulnerable language can help us find space to address the threats in our lives. ... From where I am, I try to do my bit to address the frailties of the human condition with courage rather than rage. May we be nurtured by the kind of presence that gave rise to Rilke’s language."

#PádraigÓTuama

https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/courage-and-rage-re-sending-now-open

2/fin

Continued:

"I continue to hold to the idea that speaking words of #beauty reminds us of the possibility of language.

And especially in weeks when we hear the impoverishment of speech from many quarters, it is good to bask in something uplifting, to remind us of the power of language to do that most risky thing: to make something new.

So, here by #RainerMariaRilke is poem 59, Book I:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

I.59, translated by Joanna Macey & Anita Burrows & collected in their Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead Books, 2005)

Vulnerable language can help us find space to address the threats in our lives. ... From where I am, I try to do my bit to address the frailties of the human condition with courage rather than rage. May we be nurtured by the kind of presence that gave rise to Rilke’s language."

#PádraigÓTuama

https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/courage-and-rage-re-sending-now-open

2/fin

Continued:

"I continue to hold to the idea that speaking words of #beauty reminds us of the possibility of language.

And especially in weeks when we hear the impoverishment of speech from many quarters, it is good to bask in something uplifting, to remind us of the power of language to do that most risky thing: to make something new.

So, here by #RainerMariaRilke is poem 59, Book I:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

I.59, translated by Joanna Macey & Anita Burrows & collected in their Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead Books, 2005)

Vulnerable language can help us find space to address the threats in our lives. ... From where I am, I try to do my bit to address the frailties of the human condition with courage rather than rage. May we be nurtured by the kind of presence that gave rise to Rilke’s language."

#PádraigÓTuama

https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/courage-and-rage-re-sending-now-open

2/fin

Continued:

"I continue to hold to the idea that speaking words of #beauty reminds us of the possibility of language.

And especially in weeks when we hear the impoverishment of speech from many quarters, it is good to bask in something uplifting, to remind us of the power of language to do that most risky thing: to make something new.

So, here by #RainerMariaRilke is poem 59, Book I:

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

I.59, translated by Joanna Macey & Anita Burrows & collected in their Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead Books, 2005)

Vulnerable language can help us find space to address the threats in our lives. ... From where I am, I try to do my bit to address the frailties of the human condition with courage rather than rage. May we be nurtured by the kind of presence that gave rise to Rilke’s language."

#PádraigÓTuama

https://poetryunbound.substack.com/p/courage-and-rage-re-sending-now-open

2/fin

"The capacity of a community to tell the truth about their past is a test for how the future will be enacted." --Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World, writing about "Battlegrounds" by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo https://poets.org/poem/battlegrounds

#truth #history #future #PádraigÓTuama #community #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #XochitlJulisaBermejo #Mexico #Gettysburg #CivilWar #TreatyOfGudalupeHidalgo #battlegrounds

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

#atheism for #lent, day 40: you don't have it all together and neither does anybody else

http://courtcan.com/2023/04/02/atheism-for-lent-day-40/

#PeterRollins
#PádraigÓTuama
#sin
#grace
#faith

Moved to find my poem “Norse Saga” featured on today’s #PoetryUnbound podcast from #OnBeing. My thanks to Pádraig Ó Tuama @duanalla for the loving care he took with the poem and my (ancestor) parents’ stories. #poetry #poem #padraigotuama #reading #poem #immigration #Chicago
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/poetry-unbound/id1492928827?i=1000587670693

Riding the Iron Horse to visit dad, today's travelling companions: Pharaoh Sanders on earphones and Padraig O Tuama's 50 Poems to Open Your World (a splendid combination), just out from #Edinburgh 's own Canongate Books

#books #AmReading #poetry #padraigotuama #livres #CanongateBooks