Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Category: Journal

  • Good Days and Bad

    Good Days and Bad

    Today was a bad day. Well, in all honesty, that’s a bit of an oversimplification. I loved today for all of it’s today-ness, all of it’s being alive and breathing the air and tasting food and having friends. I loved it for having work to do and meeting challenges and having laughter. I loved it…

  • Life Story

    Life Story

    On day I awoke as an infant. After hours of struggle I emerged backwards into a foreign world. I was coddled by mother and father, so I stayed this way a while. Some time later I awoke as a child. A boy with half-dollar eyes and an adventurers soul. Those days you created empires out…

  • For a Woman Unknown

    For a Woman Unknown

    She appeared in that chair out of nowhere.She seemed to me like a phantom – with a lightness of face and character such that she might float up and away had her shoes not tethered her to the spot.This apparition might leave if not engaged, I thought, but I struggled with the words.Where had she…