{"id":8791,"date":"2026-05-05T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:49:01","slug":"poetry-speaks-what-silence-intends-section-mtg-with-robert-mcdermott-bruce-donehower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/poetry-speaks-what-silence-intends-section-mtg-with-robert-mcdermott-bruce-donehower\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDie Poesie spricht, was die Stille will\u201d \/ Sektionssitzung mit Robert McDermott &amp; Bruce Donehower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&#8220;Spiritual Friendship&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liebe Freunde,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At our Section meeting on May 2, 2026 (birthday of Novalis), Robert McDermott and I teamed up for another collaborative presentation on the theme of &#8220;east&#8221; and &#8220;west,&#8221; so called. \u00a0I made a recording of this meeting, and here is the edited and chaptered video.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert spoke about his encounters with Sri Aurobindo and H.H. the Dalai Lama. Bruce spoke on the topic of &#8220;Poetry speaks what Silence intends&#8221; . . . which is a phrase I coined to discuss Andrei Belyi&#8217;s descriptions of the Esoteric Hours with Rudolf Steiner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/asa-conversation-community-resource-page-nov-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theosophical years<\/a> of the anthroposophical movement. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert McDermott &amp; Bruce Donehower \/ Collaborative Mtg. Presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1189538231?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Poetry speaks what Silence intends.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>- Bruce Donehower<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Peter Rennick shared this poem and observation about our meeting on May 2, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>More Valentine<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I listened to the old men<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Speak what they had learned <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>As young men eager and afraid<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>In the temples of longing and love<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>What stuck with them<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Through all the vagaries<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>And unexpected turns<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>The stones and shells<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>They would take back with them<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>To lay at the feet of love<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Their hearts like begging bowls<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Their eyes brimming with tears<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Their silent wish in the end<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>To be sent back for more<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5.5.26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Spiritual Friendship&#8221; &nbsp; Dear Friends, At our Section meeting on May 2, 2026 (birthday of Novalis), Robert McDermott and I teamed up for another collaborative presentation on the theme of &#8220;east&#8221; and &#8220;west,&#8221; so called. \u00a0I made a recording of this meeting, and here is the edited and chaptered video.\u00a0 Robert spoke about his encounters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-topics","category-meeting-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}