Rilke Musician Stop

Join us in this time with these meditations that will surely help you make your day a little better. Translations and reading by Mark Robert Waldman. Music composed and performed by Yuval Ron. Spiritual poetry by Rilke from his book, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.

Poetry and Music:
1. Introduction*
2. Circling
3. Alone
4. Next door
5. Each thing
6. Like a tree
7. Love song
8. Musician stop!*

Transcript

Women have broken appear earlier Musicians,

Stop!

Drummer,

Lose your hand!

Dancer,

Bind your feet!

Your beauty frightens me.

It tears my heart,

Wounds my soul.

I dare not tolerate your voice.

My tongue will soon depart,

And my stray words will fall away.

Emptiness descends,

And in that darkened moment,

My eyes turn up.

Reflections of your moon.