Today’s Rilke poem from A Year with Rilke is here at the YearwithRilke blog, and titled  “God Speaks”.    taken from The Book of Hours I, 19.

This is a difficult one for me. My belief is more spiritual than related to organized religion these days. My sense is that there is a universal energy that exists, and that it leaves the body at the moment of death to return to the universe to recharge and be reborn in another way. But of course, this is my own belief, and not one that I suggest is the correct one.

Rilke’s poem is about God speaking to us, saying he surrounds us, says “…I am the dream you are dreaming”.. .  

Jan. 20, 2014

…And with the silence of the stars I enfold
your cities made by time.–Rilke

Clear sky at evening spills
from the burn of a billion stars.
What energy lights the way?

English: Pleiades Star Cluster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What spark first strikes neurons
in the human brain? What shape
held its first life in the universe?

To what does it return when
the last neuron dies? Is this the true
human soul, the white and tunneled light?

–CAS

A short passage for Jan. 18 dated July 16, 1903 from Letters to a Young Poet:

“And Everything Matters”  “The tasks that have been entrusted to us are often difficult. Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters.” —Rainer Maria Rilke from A Year with Rilke

Jan. 18, 2014

While I think about this
Zemanta tells me Nothing Really Matters
but Foodmatters, and by the way,

the truth matters, Family matters
and even so, nothing matters and what if it did?
Followed almost at once by all that matters.

Google tells me Poetry matters and why
it matters now, and Science also matters. Did you know
there are poems about matter in science?

I have made Worry matter, although it gives back
only stress, so to live without worry does matter.
Is this why it is so difficult to find inner calm?

–CAS

Related articles

• “Letters to a Young Poet”
• Letters To A Young Poet ~Rilke