Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: Life

  • 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…

  • A Riddle Worth Solving

    A Riddle Worth Solving

    My boughs bend for it, says the great white oak. My legs chirp for it, spoke the cricket in rhythmic fashion, And in the stable the heifer lowed, my bell rings for it. Overhead the snowy owl declared, in the way that owls do, I watch in the night for it, And the stream in…

  • 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…