Stillness
The birdsong’s interrupted by
The lawn machine next door.
I cannot hear the tweets and trills
Above the mower’s roar.
An airplane flies by overhead;
The garbage truck makes beeps,
But suddenly, the man-made noises
Cease and there are cheeps.
Though sounds of nature coexist
With man’s cacophony,
Cessation of the latter
Brings a stillness sweet to me.
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