Fable of dark silence, part two
in the silence the woman stood still
listening to the stolen landscape
absence of footsteps
absence of wingbeats
the river's song rising to nothing
the stones standing mute
the fluid hills stilled
the air no longer moving at all
she raised her head, gazing out
letting her eyes soak in
the stain that dimmed the air
listening to silence, she found
the rhythm of her blood
and something small began
to spin into the open air
following the beat within
a warmth, low and indistinct like
the first slip of melting snow
a mere breath, it crept from her lungs
spread up her throat and past her lips
a sigh that grew in shape and form
solidifying into flow like water
lifting into air like color
like soft light beneath the moon
she filled her lungs and
felt the breath caress her voice
a movement from the warm secrets of her body
a bright vibration moving into open air
this is how silence births song
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posted by MB at 1:33 PM
22 Comments:
A lovely description of inspiration. Beautiful photograph, and a perfect companion to the poem.
I love how you get the reader quiet with everything in the poem, and in the end you don't break the silence, but accompany it with your voice. Damn fine write!!
that last line is so beautiful and so perceptive
Dark....moist....sensual
What wonderful music
Fascinating, I keep rereading this. Something about the second half makes me think of the Kalevala (the ancient Finnish epic). Powerful and beautiful, MB!
Such lovely velvet blues and browns--perfect with the poem--make me feel the richness of the season. Just what I need to deal with the darkness...
mb, this is beautiful. it opens for me as though it were an image. i see every nuance, the motion, the colors, the forms. and then i hear your beautiful song.
A sweet new weaving of an old creation story...one I'm fortunate to live, if I'm mindful, daily.
;-)
oh.
Stunning. This speaks to me more than you know.
This deserves melody, and multiple harmonies.
there's magic in your words... brilliant!
silence is really YOUR subject ... you make it speak.
Robin Andrea, this works for me on several levels. Inspiration — the drawing of air into the lungs, and the arousal of the mind to creativity — is one of the things I was thinking of.
Charlie, or maybe out of the still of the night? Thanks.
Pat, thanks very much. The silence is there, always.
Pauline, it comes directly from my experience with music, which depends upon silence to exist, and to be beautiful. In my band, we are always trying to cut back on "too many notes!"
Fred, oh my. Thank you! ;-)
Endment, much appreciated, thanks.
Marja-Leena, I remember you making reference to the Kalevala in connection with a movie, but I don't know anything about it. You've peaked my curiousity.
Firebird, me too, me too.
Sky, thank you for sharing your lovely response to it.
Lori, the creation stories are there to be recreated (!) every day. I depend on it!
Mary, it has much meaning for me, too. Thank you.
Zhoen, it's true that I was singing to myself afterward.
Polona, thanks so much.
Becca, thanks. Silence is one of life's conundrums!
Superb!
Love the silence...it's bewitching, isn't it? And disarming...
The silence is necessary before movement.
superb
silence is hard to beat
fabulous these two....
"lifting into air like color"
so beautiful...
Reading these together (part I AND II,) Awe! Wonderful! The silence and color...the song within gives life!
Beautiful descriptions ... and feelings
you have expressed a wonderful talent MB... :o)
Don, thank you. Silence can be many things, bewitching, disarming, enchanting, all the way down to overwhelming!
Mermaid, thanks for your insight!
Floots, thanks. In both senses of the phrase, sometimes!
Anne, thank you very much! Thanks for stopping by.
Michelle, I think every one of us is in some fashion.
Bitterroot, thank you. Hearing that phrase quoted by you makes me think of your photographs.
Corey, the song and the breath give life, and the silence gives life to the breath. Without silence, we would not have sound. Thanks!
Trinitystar, thank you very much!
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