silence

["J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>]

hello, dear friends.

it's been a while, even though i've had the good
fortune to still be in touch with various listees.  i
will miss you at taft, i'm afraid; but one day i hope
to join you again.  

i have enjoyed the poems offered, and they reminded me
of olden days :)

here's one from wendell berry:

silence

though the air is full of singing
my head is loud
with the labor of words.

though the season is rich
with fruit, my tongue
hungers for the sweet of speech.

though the beech is golden
i cannot stand beside it
mute, but must say

"it is golden," while the leaves
stir and fall with a sound
that is not a name.

it is in the silence
that my hope is, and my aim.
a song whose lines

i cannot make or sing
sounds men's silence
like a root.  let me say

and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.

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take care,
j. marie

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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. -Flannery O'Connor

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