COEXIST: I Live My Life in Widening Circles

Diane Vogel Ferri’s full-length poetry book is Everything is Rising (Luchador Press). Her latest novel is No Life But This: A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling (Atbosh Media) Her essays have been published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scene Magazine, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among others. Her poems can be found in numerous journals such as Wend Poetry, Blue Heron Review, Rubbertop Review, and Poet Lore. Her previous publications are Liquid Rubies (poetry), The Volume of Our Incongruity (poetry), and The Desire Path (novel). She has done many poetry readings locally. Diane’s essay, “I Will Sing for You” was featured at the Cleveland Humanities Festival in 2018. A former teacher, she holds an M.Ed from Cleveland State University and is a founding member of Literary Cleveland. Her poem, For You, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net 2023

Saturday, September 27, 2008

I Live My Life in Widening Circles

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give it to myself.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and still I don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm or a great song?

Rainer Maria Rilke
from The Book of Hours

4 comments:

Ruth Hull Chatlien said...: I love this poem too. I bought that collection not too long ago.; September 27, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Fran said...: Ah...Rilke, beautiful.

Thank you.; September 27, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Stratoz said...: I love the uncertainty in this poem... I am all about that.; September 29, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Anonymous said...: This is a lovely poem...; October 1, 2008 at 1:14 AM