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Into Silence

*** INTO SILENCE ***

Like a child
Again
I have been dismissed
To Silence:

Where I find
   fawns walk
   splendidly soundless;
Where the moon
   only
Brings a rising
   Voice
To converse with 
   my heart…


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(c) sally young eslinger 3/26/22
Thanks be to God

Copyright © Sally Eslinger | Year Posted 2022

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Juliet Ligon Date: 4/13/2022 4:06:00 PM Sounds like a humbling experience. Sometimes it's there we find awe. This can be interpreted many ways to different people. Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:09:00 AM Thank you,Juliet, for your sensitive comment and interpretation. So nice to meet you!

Unseeking Seeker Date: 4/11/2022 7:30:00 AM Soulful stirrings of silence suffusing our spacial heart ~ beautiful write, Sally! Enjoyed Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:13:00 AM Thank you, Seeker, for your touching, knowing comment. Have a blessed day!

Michelle Faulkner Date: 4/9/2022 11:34:00 AM The silence and beauty of nature is so compelling, like the image of the fawn and rising moon, I too am reduced to speechlessness~ Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:18:00 AM A most thoughtful comment. So true. I thank you for your reading and comment. Hugs, dear friend.

Beryl Edmonds Date: 3/29/2022 4:57:00 PM Beautiful Sally, love the notion of nature’s sound of silence conversing with your heart… Belle Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:27:00 AM Hi, Belle! Since last autumn, I have been concentrating on nature A LOT, greatly as being bedridden I don’t get out enough to take it for granted. :-) When we drive out going to dr.s, the trees seem SO SO various & beautiful. I Ooo & Anna’s they try to speak to me. Thank U for ur dear words.

Joe Dimino Date: 3/29/2022 1:33:00 PM Great writing, Sally! You are a writer's well of companionship, and inspiration. Beautiful work! A fav.! Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:33:00 AM My dear Joe, your words humble me…I keep trying, not sure I’ll ever be able to transcribe the ineffable…. Thank you for your touching comment. xoxo sally

Joe Maverick Date: 3/29/2022 12:17:00 PM Very peaceful Sally, a hearts understanding .' Login to Reply Sally Eslinger Date: 4/14/2022 5:38:00 AM Thank you, Joe. As age advances the physical, it makes life harder physically, but there has been a benefit for me of deeper spiritual perception and growth,,,fodder for poetry’s voice. Blessings gu you!