"ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better."

“ever tried.
ever failed.
no matter.
try again.
fail again.
fail better.”

- samuel beckett

burning the old year

visual-poetry:

letters swallow themselves in seconds.
notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.

so much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.

where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
i begin again with the smallest numbers.

quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things i didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.

– naomi shihab nye

wir wollen glauben

visual-poetry:

wir wollen glauben
an ein langes jahr,
das uns gegeben ist,
neu, unberührt,
voll nie gewesener dinge,
voll nie getaner arbeit,
voll aufgabe, anspruch,
zumutung.

wir wollen sehen,
daß wir´s nehmen lernen,
ohne all zu
viel fallen zu lassen, von dem,
was es zu vergeben hat,
an die, die notwendiges,
ernstes und großes
von ihm verlangen.

– rainer m. rilke