Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: love

  • Connected Separately

    Connected Separately

    We are certainly connected by some ethereal twine,Absorbing our individual bumps and bruises,Yet feeling pain on the other end of the line.We are distanced yet close,lovers but hating,unforgiven and forgiven all the same. You may not feel the same as me, but nonetheless I feel.And feeling is second-best to having you, so feeling must do.…

  • Renewing our vows with each passing breath

    Renewing our vows with each passing breath

    There is no sense of time, there is no sense of space That cliff in Africa, where we screamed like madmen That ancient mountain ruin, where we sought tribal ghosts That crisp night air, where we saw the infinity of space unfold above us. These are moments where we captured what we could of the…

  • 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…