Drifting Awake » silence http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 from listening to Silence http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/05/from-listening-to-silence/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/05/from-listening-to-silence/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:00:24 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=1621

you can’t cross from listening to Silence — there’s no you in Silence

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piano jazz -
lazy swing groove accompanies
the quiet between the notes

for Marian McPartland

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Maui, near Haiku –
clouds break against the mountain,
birds chant in falling rain

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listening at the edge of silence brings wonder

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bare branches soak in silence
broken once only
by the cry of a crow

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the world emerging as we speak . . .
could even the gods ask for more?

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all talk of the Way
breaks the silence,
some with good cause

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the Unsayable when spoken is silence

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thoughts like clouds
break upon the mountain,
pouring rain, chanting birds

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good days, bad days, indifferent days,
behind and between the thoughts –
silence and an accompanying light

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falling rain
chanting birds
clouds embrace the mountain

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drenched in silence, fog
crickets
beginning the night

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