Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: Journal

  • 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…

  • Give Every Day

    And we feed this vacuous empty with noise and light, technology and companionship, and turn our back on that which will satisfy. We deny our core values and whitewash our filthiness in an effort to manifest a semblance of trust and maturity. In our hearts we pump a steady stream of “love”, and yet we…

  • Eternal Equality

    And in the east the fire-orange glow creeps over the horizon, touching mountaintops with its silent warm fingers, leaving valleys chilled in the forgetful fog of night. The merging of two worlds, repeated as it has for eons, and newborn fresh even still. Somewhere, at any given time, this dance continues, with night telling day,…