{"id":204,"date":"2014-06-25T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-06-25T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:58:47","slug":"204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Day: June 25, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Rainer_Maria_Rilke_1900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Rainer_Maria_Rilke_1900-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rainer_Maria_Rilke,_1900\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Rainer_Maria_Rilke_1900-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Rainer_Maria_Rilke_1900.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Was going through a box of old papers from the basement this morning and found this poem handwritten on a yellow legal sheet that had the phone numbers for my friends Alex and Jon, and my dad. I wrote it down sometime in the late 1990s. Also on the sheet there was the birth info for some baseball players not born on US soil.<\/p>\n<p>Meulens, Hensley, June 23, 1967 Curacao Netherlands Antilles<\/p>\n<p>Burt Blyleven, b:April 6, 1951 Zeist Netherlangs<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Bochy Landes de Bussac France<\/p>\n<p>Mike Blowers Weizburg W Germany<\/p>\n<p>Win Remmerswaal March 8, 1954 The Hague Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Okay, onto the poem.<\/p>\n<p><em>World Was In the Face of the Beloved<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">World was in the face of the beloved&#8211;,<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">but suddenly it poured out and was gone:<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">world is outside, world can not be grasped.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Why didn&#8217;t I, from the full, beloved face<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">as I raised it to my lips, why didn&#8217;t I drink<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">world, so near that I couldn&#8217;t almost taste it?<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">But I was filled up also, with too much<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-25-14.51.59-e1403722508755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-25-14.51.59-e1403722508755-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-25 14.51.59\" width=\"474\" height=\"842\" \/><\/a>=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was going through a box of old papers from the basement this morning and found this poem handwritten on a yellow legal sheet that had the phone numbers for my friends Alex and Jon, and my dad. I wrote it down sometime in the late 1990s. Also on the sheet there was the birth info &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem of the Day: June 25, 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}