Entering

I've been reading a book that Jon gave me for Christmas...he knows that Rilke is one of my favorite poets. The book is A Year With Rilke:  Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Today's poem is "Entering".  Quite fitting for the new year...

Whoever you may be:  step into the evening.

Step out of the room where everything is known.

Whoever you are, 

your house is the last before the far-off.

With your eyes, which are almost too tired

to free themselves from the familiar, 

you slowly take one black tree

and set it against the sky:  slender, alone.

And you have made a world.

It is big

and like a word, still ripening in silence.

And though your mind would fabricate its meaning, 

your eyes tenderly let go of what they see.

Stay tuned for more book citing and poetry--I have a new Kindle and so much to read!!