and i continue to make the ones that i find beautiful and important and lovely. the ones that speak to me and that speak to a universal me as well. today i did another rilke poem. 'childhood'. simple and momentous at the same time...i'll include the poem and a selection of my quilted version.
Childhood
It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for those long childhood afternoons you knew
that vanished so completely -and why?
We're still reminded-: sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
life was never again so filled with meeting,
with reunion and with passing on
as back then, when nothing happened to us
except what happens to things and creatures:
we lived their world as something human,
and became filled to the brim with figures.
And became as lonely as a sheperd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for those long childhood afternoons you knew
that vanished so completely -and why?
We're still reminded-: sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
life was never again so filled with meeting,
with reunion and with passing on
as back then, when nothing happened to us
except what happens to things and creatures:
we lived their world as something human,
and became filled to the brim with figures.
And became as lonely as a sheperd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is a contentment in the gaps between each stitch I see. It's so special, and so sacred to see your works and hear your inner monologue. I cannot imagine a world without words... they are my gemstones.To have them weaved into a medium that brings warmth and comfort too... well that's heaven! ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteI had no such idea about quilts with words in their reverses. How lovely and how happy moments you have creating your sewing poems.
ReplyDeleteRomantic and practical.