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Blue Hydrangeas
Like in old cans of paint the last green hue, these leaves are sere and rough and dull-complected behind the blossom clusters in which blue is not so much displayed as it's reflected;They do reflect it imprecise and teary,as though they'd rather have it go away,and just like faded, once blue stationery, they're tinged with yellow, violet and gray;As in an often laundered children's smock, cast off, its usefulness now all but over, one senses running down a small life's clock.Yet suddenly the blue revives, it seems, and in among these clusters one discoversa tender blue rejoicing in the green.
by Rainer Maria Rilke
This translation is by Bernhard Frank
by Rainer Maria Rilke
This translation is by Bernhard Frank
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a SOUL moment
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less
than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way to the holy
and hidden heart of it because
in the last analysis -
all moments are key moments and life itself is
grace.
-- Frederick Buechner
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