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Buddha in Glory

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by Rainer Maria Rilke

Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet–
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.

From Ahead of All Parting:
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell

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Learning To Live With Me

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Gary Allan

(Harley Allen/Gary Burr)

I used to wish that I was
Great as any man
Better than I am
Could do things no one can
And I used to wish that I was cool as I could be
But now I’m learning to live with me

Is anybody satisfied with who they really are
You could be the moon
And still be jealous of the stars
You gotta’ learn to swim
If you can’t walk upon the sea
So I’m learning to live with me

And I used to wish that I was
Braver than the rest
A hero nothin’ less
A big duke in the west
But I know the way I am is who I’m gonna be
So I’m learing to live with me

Is anybody satisfied with who they really are
You could be the moon
And still be jealous of the stars
You gotta’ learn to swim
If you can’t walk upon the sea
So I’m learning to live

Learning to forgive
Learning to live with me

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Waltz Across Texas Tonight

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Emmylou Harris

Lyrics: (Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris)

the wind can blow cold, it moans and it cries
when it carries the sound of a thousand goodbyes
but if you listen tonight on that high lonely plain
you’ll just hear my voice as it calls out your name
you’ll just hear my voice as it calls out your name

you’ve been on a road that just don’t seem to end
where that broken old heart of yours won’t ever mend
you’ve crossed over bridges and bridges they burn
so many rivers and so much to learn
so many bridges and so much to learn

but the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
and my hand is steady, my touch is light
look in my eyes, hold on real tight
and I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

we both have known hard luck and love that’s gone wrong
when the ghosts take the shadows and the night takes too long
we folded our cards when the hand wasn’t strong
but that wheel will keeps spinning long after we’re gone
yeah, that wheel will keep spinning long after we’re gone

and the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
and my hand is steady, my touch is light
look in my eyes, hold on real tight
and I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

look in my eyes, hold on real tight
and I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I’ll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

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Winter Stars

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By Sara Teasdale

I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings —
I bore my sorrow heavily.
But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn steadily as long ago.

From windows in my father’s house,
Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city’s lights.

Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The faithful beauty of the stars.

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Snowfall

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By Sara Teasdale

“She can’t be unhappy,” you said,
“The smiles are like stars in her eyes,
And her laughter is thistledown
Around her low replies.”
“Is she unhappy?” you said–
But who has ever known
Another’s heartbreak–
All he can know is his own;
And she seems hushed to me,
As hushed as though
Her heart were a hunter’s fire
Smothered in snow.

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Leaves

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By Sara Teasdale

One by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and delicate red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
I who was content to be
But a silken-singing tree,
But a rustle of delight
In the wistful heart of night–
I have lost the leaves that knew
Touch of rain and weight of dew.
Blinded by a leafy crown
I looked neither up nor down–
But the little leaves that die
Have left me room to see the sky;
Now for the first time I know
Stars above and earth below.

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Peace

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By Sara Teasdale

Peace flows into me
As the tide to the pool by the shore;
It is mine forevermore,
It ebbs not back like the sea.

I am the pool of blue
That worships the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all fulfilled in you.

I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies, —
You are my deepening skies,
Give me your stars to hold.

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