Sounds In Silence

Enjoy the silence, the deep of night. Not true silence for the word itself is illusion. Still yourself enough to hear. Listen for the sounds invoked in the darkness. Quiet yourself from the inside-out to perceive more. The insights revealed during such muted moments slow us, granting peace and serenity. Night is a living entity brimming with sound and industry. Work, machine, wheel and gear. A train's low grumbling engine. Its doleful horn carried mournfully on humid summer air. The machinery of life resonates. Those working graveyard hours commute, clock-in, labor. The stark trumpeting of a siren carries over the numbed ears of a slumbering city. A harsh, grating street sweeper toils joined by the ghosts of twilight on hushed, shadow-laden avenues. Voices, song, and music in the night. Crickets saw a faux-string melody. Leaves rustle, sweep, and dance a quiescent refrain on puffs of easy air. There are drums on the silence as approaching clouds roll with thunder. Rains follow. The timbre of water bubbling upon earth, rooftop, and walkway. A great horned owl takes flight. Its wings "whip, whip, whip," as it directs the late night aria. Savor this appealing chorus of sounds as an all familiar nocturne. The sounds of silence enrich and help make tranquil the human heart. Being part of its lyric, we are calmed by nature's chorus. Even the weighty rumble and earsplitting rasp of thunder can soothe the heart at night. We are a part of the sound and silence always, and in all ways. Sounds in Silence Free Verse