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justam
justam Posts: 21,415
edited October 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
And, surprisingly
silence could be interpreted

how, it's hard to say
but sometimes it seemed calm

sometimes hopeful
sometimes agitated

and at the worst times, it was
terribly full of hope-less-ness

but, today
the silence seemed to want to communicate
an openness

like rests in music
sometimes no sound can still speak
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  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    yeah! silence can speak...
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • jamjam
    jamjam Posts: 491
    what does it say? :)
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    depends on timing...
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    jamjam wrote:
    what does it say? :)

    breathe :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    I LOVE poems about silence. Just the physical feel on the tongue as it is said has 9 parts smooth, to 1 part anxious. Silence is interpreted in so many ways, almost amazing it can't really exist, you know. Nice poem:)
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I LOVE poems about silence. Just the physical feel on the tongue as it is said has 9 parts smooth, to 1 part anxious. Silence is interpreted in so many ways, almost amazing it can't really exist, you know. Nice poem:)

    Thank you ms. Haiku. :)

    Yeah, I work on rests with my students all the time so that they don't think of them as "nothing" but rather a "something" filled with silence that has a definite beginning and end.

    It makes silence feel less frightening in the middle of a piece of music...but then I started thinking about what we're really imitating...the silences in language and how they can mean so many different things.
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  • asphalt
    asphalt Posts: 113
    you could have spoken through silence
    it could have been without chords

    of all the things on my mind

    it could have been a ... song


    (last 4 lines from one of my poems)
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    asphalt wrote:
    you could have spoken through silence
    it could have been without chords

    of all the things on my mind

    it could have been a ... song


    (last 4 lines from one of my poems)

    I like it! :)
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