1675: The Gift | Li-Young Lee

[exceptindreams]

"The Gift

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[onestringed]

I really like what you've written, it's beautiful.

I love that very line (lifeline, perhaps) of Rilke's very much too.

[exceptindreams]

Thank you. I read that poem this summer when I desperately need a poetry lifeline, and it was spectacularly true then as it is now. I wonder if Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror will always be that powerful for me.

[mandity]

This is very incredibly poignant. Hope you'll write more of such posts :)

[versipellis]

there is a light somewhere/it may not be much light/but it beats the darkness

This is something I need to hear, thank you. And your last line is beautiful! I think you're right about letting yourself feel things and be hurt, but it's so hard.

The poem is also beautiful - I love its lyricism and measured tone.

[secretsolitaire]

Gorgeous post.

[pinksunglasses2]

What you've written is beautiful (as is the poem).