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Life on the Deckle Edge

Poetry Friday - Rainer Maria Rilke Quote for the New Year

 

Greetings, Poetry Lovers!  I hope you are enjoying your holidays.  We are still in and out visiting family and grateful for time together.  Just a quote from a poet today - the beloved Rainer Maria Rilke. I discovered the words and their source on this curious quote-gatherer's website here.

 

Here's the whole sentence, written by Rainer Maria Rilke to his wife Clare in a 1907 letter:

 

          And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

 

If you like the clicky-tap-tappy sound of a typewriter, feel free to check out the video I put on Instagram (artsylettersgifts) - and click the little volume symbol to unmute it -  or Facebook (artsyletters) with a portion of the above quote.  Just my wish for us all for 2022. (Note - for the first video version I posted, I used my laptop's video editor and added background music from their list of options. It was a Ravel string quartet.  I got an email saying it was removed because of a copyright violation - I didn't know those built-in tracks could violate copyright!  Wouldn't ever do that intentionally.  So, version 2 here is just the keys tapping - and an occasional bong from the windchimes!) 

 

Enjoy this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at Carol's Corner - Thanks for hosting, Carol!

Here's to good health and joy (& lots of poems!) to you and yours in the New Year.

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Poetry Friday - Go Ring the Bells with Jone!

Greetings, Friends - I'm still all wrapped up in packaging tape and bubble wrap over here, getting out holiday Etsy orders... but I was delighted to peek up long enough to enjoy Jone's double golden shovel poem, and Linda B.'s poem, over at Jone's place this morning.  She has this week's Roundup - follow the jingling to enjoy all the goodness here

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Poetry Friday - Go Visit Cathy!

Howdy - Still happily covered up in Etsy orders over here and burning too much midnight oil.  I didn't get a post conjured up, but I hope to drop in a few others this weekend.  Enjoy all the poetic goodness over at Merely Day by Day, where Cathy is hosting this week! 

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Poetry Friday - Grandmothers, Yes!

 

Greetings, Poetry Lovers!

 

I hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday last week.  Had such a good time with my kin I didn't even get a chance to check into Poetry Friday!  

 

One of the highlights for our gathering - at our new place on the other side of our state (SC), up in the hills - was that our daughter Morgan and hubby Matt brought a special little box for us to open.  Hint:  they had filled it with items either pink or blue!  And - drumroll.... - it had blue goodies!  We are all expecting the next generation to arrive at the beginning of June, which is convenient for Morgan as a third-grade teacher. ;0)  And we are all grateful for faith and for science and medicine, as that wee little one has been more than three years in the making. 

 

So Jeff and I are about to enter the adventure of grandparenting, and we couldn't be more thrilled. 

 

Naturally, a recent Poem-a-Day from poets.org in my inbox caught my eye.  Maybe you saw it? The title is "no more grandma poems" by Yolanda Wisher. 

 

Here is the opening, and a link for the rest....

 

 

no more grandma poems

 

by Yolanda Wisher

 

they said
forget your grandma
these american letters
don't need no more
grandma poems
but i said
the grandmas are
our first poetic forms
the first haiku
was a grandma

...

 

click here for the rest. 

 

 

My grandmothers were very different from each other.  I loved them both dearly, and see glimpses of both of them in the mirror these days. And I just recently heard about the anthropological research suggesting that grandmothers have been very important in evolutionary history, helping to get the youngest generations on their way to adulthood.  Also, I hadn't even heard of "The Grandmother Hypothesis" - but evidently it's been around as long as I have, (since the '60s).  Just Google it if you're intrigued.

 

Here's to the next generation, and the ones after that.  Let's try to keep the world habitable for them, shall we?

 

Many thanks to my fellow Etsian Michelle Kogan for hosting Poetry Friday this week, with her usual creative panache!

 

PS - I did manage to get an artsyletters newsletter out - Click here if you'd like to read.  And though the CyberWeek savings are over, feel free as a Poetry Friday friend to use Coupon Code NEWSY10 for 10 percent off in my Etsy shop. ;0) It's been a busy place this season!

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