Re: Soothing poem about silence

[Guest guest]

Wow, you can tell you are certainly a writer! That should be

published. Very good!

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> I wrote this today. I felt it in my heart -- this desire for

> silence. I know you all feel it too. I hope the calming words help

> you, too. It soothed me to give them air.

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> RAPTURE OF SILENCE

> by Ryman

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> Wind blowing curtains, ivory silk.

> Moonlit ribbon dances through.

> White pillow, powdered kiss of night

> I breathe, slumber, dream.

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> Rapture of silence -- Embrace me sweetly.

> The empty wind with no voice

> combs my hair with silent fingers

> and cools my burning feet.

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> Rapture of silence -- Oh how I wait.

> Long days of yearning, tortured hours

> Mindless chatter, senseless noise

> Bereft of energy, impossible to avoid.

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> White pillow, powdered kiss of night.

> And away I dream a soothing stillness.

> Ripples of water memories.

> Glades of shadowed green.

> Crossings of light between tree leaves.

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> It is the sweet nectar of dreams

> in which I gloriously swim.

> Lovingly, blindingly, beautifully mine.

> Beautifully white and

> Silent.

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