Celebrating & Sharing Poems as Friends
Someone once said "a good poem is a mystery you can trust."
About our guest
Lois P. Jones is a luminous poet, radio host and editor, living in California. She won the 2023 Alpine Fellowship which this year takes place in Fjällnäs, Sweden. She was a finalist in the annual Mslexia Poetry Competition judged by Helen Mort and will be published in Spring 2023. In 2022 her work was a finalist for both the Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry from Orison Books and the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Lois' first collection, 'Night Ladder' was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2017 and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Lascaux Poetry Prize for a poetry collection. Since 2007, has hosted KPFK’s Poets Café, co-produced the Moonday Poetry Series and acted as poetry editor for Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal.
What Survives
by Rainer Maria Rilke
What Survives
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by A. Poulin, Jr.
Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
our caresses, in their ground.
It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor--from breast to knees—
and the battle was so pure
may an Angel wear it after you.
From The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. (Graywolf Press, 2002).
Read more
The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin Jr (Graywolf Press, 2002)
Night Ladder by Lois P. Jones (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
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