{"id":1344,"date":"2015-04-27T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:29","slug":"april-27-end-of-term-time-i-want-to-free-what-waits-within-me-r-m-rilke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/27\/april-27-end-of-term-time-i-want-to-free-what-waits-within-me-r-m-rilke\/","title":{"rendered":"April 27 – End of Term time –> “I want to free what waits within me” (R. M. Rilke)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday April 27 – \u201cNever Yet Been Spoken”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last exam days for Term 2, a week for bringing 15-week-long tasks to completion, for student goodbyes to campuses, some heading off to Commencement and its powerful goodbyes. \u00a0These past several days, too, a group of students and faculty were led by University Ministry to an immersion trip in El Salvador, and another group headed off to inner city Baltimore, and still a third drove off campus c. 4:00 am in a university van heading to Fr. Cavanagh\u2019s and Professor Mary Lou Casper\u2019s annual hiking retreat in Shenandoah National Park. \u00a0I can remember one of those groups stopping by my Southwest Philadelphia Jesuit house while I lived there doing PhD work at The University of Pennsylvania, and that was in the late 1970s. \u00a0No surprise that the Appalachian hiking retreat has embedded itself in UDM spring rituals.<\/p>\n

A friend sent me this Rilke poem the other day; as I read it, I wondered that I\u2019d not posted any of this mystical Austrian young man\u2019s poems until now. \u00a0As you watch our students live through the end of the term and say some goodbyes that may prove only temporary, but may run deeper than that, you might find \u201cI believe in all that has never yet been spoken\u201d a help to imagine students at this moment of the year.<\/p>\n

Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n

Have a blest week.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post – “I Believe in All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
\nI want to free what waits within me
\nso that what no one has dared to wish for
\nmay for once spring clear
\nwithout my contriving.<\/p>\n

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
\nbut this is what I need to say.
\nMay what I do flow from me like a river,
\nno forcing and no holding back,
\nthe way it is with children.<\/p>\n

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
\nthese deepening tides moving out, returning,
\nI will sing you as no one ever has,
\nstreaming through widening channels
\ninto the open sea.<\/p>\n

\"Rainer-Maria-Rilke\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rainer Maria Rilke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1875-1926<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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