Water Lily

Running rest-day ...

... we spent quite a bit of the afternoon down at our Allotment; with a beautiful water-lily (as pictured) in full flower in our pond.

Reminded me of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem:


WATER LILY

My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...