Behind The Blameless Trees Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Behind The Blameless Trees

Rating: 4.8


Behind the blameless trees
old fate slowly builds
her mute countenance.
Wrinkles grow there . . .
What a bird shrieks here
springs there like a gasp of warning
from a soothsayer's hard mouth.

And the soon-to-be lovers
smile on each other, not yet knowing farewell,
and round about them, like a constellation,
their destiny casts
its nightly spell.
Still to come, it does not reach out to them,
it remains
a phantom
floating in its heavenly course.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Anil Kumar Panda 18 October 2017

This is a very beautiful poem. Like to rad again and again. Enjoyed.

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James Burnham 12 July 2016

This translation is by James Burnham. See blackcatpoems.com for additional Rilke translations.

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M Asim Nehal 08 July 2016

Very thoughtful poem, I enjoyed it.10...To write about the fate in such a manner is awesome. We always blame it in one or the other way but the fact remains as is which is Blameless.

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Ramesh Rai 02 March 2015

Fate is also like blameless tree where every thing happens at its own course.

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