Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: Life

  • 3 Words, No Sound

    3 Words, No Sound

    We entered this year with crush and explosion, warm bodies and cold air. Shoes lay ramshackle, willy-nilly, with scattered gloves and scarves on that old marble bridge while we purged our systems of excess adrenaline – this could be the realest moment yet. Hold me close, she says, while not saying anything at all. Perhaps…

  • Burdens & Technology

    Burdens & Technology

    I just want to live simply and love completely. To adhere to the common morality of our fathers and theirs in a world disconnected — enchanted by the mere hope of a good life borne of truthful labor. To rise before the sun shows his face, running cold fingertips through the thick remnants of a…

  • A Part of the Whole

    A Part of the Whole

    This dark majestic wonder of infinity ceased to be a vacuum and became a collection of dust, like the silly hairlike particles floating in a sunbeam through the closed window where I watched father drink his ale or mother knit her scarf. I melted into the hardwood floor like the spilled glass of water. I…