Sally Eslinger Poet Free verse

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

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

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

Michelle Faulkner April 9, 2022 at 11:34 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~ Sally Eslinger April 14, 2022 at 5:18 AM A most thoughtful comment. So true. I thank you for your reading and comment. Hugs, dear friend.

Beryl Edmonds March 29, 2022 at 4:57 PM Beautiful Sally, love the notion of nature’s sound of silence conversing with your heart… Belle Sally Eslinger April 14, 2022 at 5:27 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.

Joseph P. DiMino March 29, 2022 at 1:33 PM Great writing, Sally! You are a writer's well of companionship, and inspiration. Beautiful work! A fav.! Sally Eslinger April 14, 2022 at 5:33 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 March 29, 2022 at 12:17 PM Very peaceful Sally, a hearts understanding .' Sally Eslinger April 14, 2022 at 5:38 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!