What is silence?
Something of the sky in us.
~ Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 1,” Poetry
Notes: Poem – The Vale of the Soulmaking. Photo: John White with Blue Sky with small clouds (Eyre Peninsula, Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia)
I can't sleep…
What is silence?
Something of the sky in us.
~ Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 1,” Poetry
Notes: Poem – The Vale of the Soulmaking. Photo: John White with Blue Sky with small clouds (Eyre Peninsula, Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia)
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SILENCE …. my favorite sound!! It soothes and calms me!!
Me too!
Ahhh, yes!
Sky is silent ..but clouds are not
Sky is dark lit with stars
Sky is everywhere in our sight
Watch the sky…and learn to be silent at all times
That’s it!
I love this thought! It seems so apt — and so rewarding!
So agree. So much in so few words. I was swept away as well Carol.
And most thankfully so, ’cause then we heard of it. 🙂 Thank you!
“Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation.”
~ Rumi
Ps. If you put the two quotes together it makes Silence a piece of God in us.
Deep!
Finding inner silence in the midst of chaos…the way to sanity…
Yes…
Why is it so much easier to take a deep breath in the silence? So necessary, as well…
So necessary, yes.
“Off we go into the wild blue yonder”…”Above us only sky”…the sky is a constant in everyone’s life…the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars,those of us with eyesight often look skyward…thinking, dreaming, wondering… the sky’s changing colors influenced by what is being reflected, the vast storm systems obscure blue, the storm lays down thick heavy layers of different levels, can be stagnant… sitting, brewing, gaining in strength or shedding frivolously or lightly…a storm can move along,at great speeds, clearing a way presenting a path that illuminates light…and calmness is found, grasped in the soothing silence… in the stillness and silence one can hear God and in the end for me, a promise… “After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (NIV)
Beautiful Christie. Thank you