A Retorical Question – Do You Still Have Faith In Nights?

Do You Still Have Faith In Nights?

Darkness, you who gathers everything,
the rills of awareness, and keys to Bohemian
nights, and energies moving therein,

You, whose verse and lyrical prose,
mentored some by Cézanne and Rodin,
became sculpted objects, entities in themselves.

In Ronda, the famous bull-fighting center
in southern Spain, there is tribute to you,
for your work and extended stay.

“Rose, oh pure contradiction, delight
of being no-one’s sleep under so
many lids,” your epitaph.

Apollo, Hermes, and Orpheus no more.
Is that great energy moving near you?
Do you still have faith in nights?

–LE

An homage to Ranier Maria Rilke (a Bohemian-Austrian poet) and his poem, ‘You, Darkness’.

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