Best Quietude Poems

I decorate a grotto for you, Mama
where orchids and holy images
embellish this special place and day,
that saintly icons guard you there
as if they beg me to be released
from years of guilty devotion…
Yet I polish their laced clothes;
then end the night waiting
for wind chimes to knell,’...

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Quietude
          by Odin Roark

Quietude
Like a tree’s dark shadow
Knows only the absorption of all colors
Rendering the din of senses
A cacophonous silence

How gentle the process
Once resistance abates
The mind’s own deprivation tank
Engendering trust void of fear

Yet

So hesitant are many
To...

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Listen. Can you hear it? Stay still.
Deep silence you will hear.
Watch sun sliding behind the hill.
Can you feel God is near?

This is my spirit’s food;
with peace I am imbued
in lovely quietude.

As sun’s last rays glisten,
can you hear it? Listen.


Sept. 12, 2021
For Brian Strand's 'A STRAND...

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"Bliss like thine is brought by years;
Dark with torment and with tears."

Emily Bronte - Sleep Not (1846) st.1
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often, I am in the throes and agony of my mind
I am tortured and each day I grapple with sad thoughts
      that pinion...

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As September shadows appear
All creatures prepare for winter days to come
No calendar to tell them of advancing time
They just know it was planned that way
One by one the leaves of crimson and gold
Of dying browns fall from maples, oaks upon the ground
A note of regret,...

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Curved in a ball
thinking


Cars roaring by
-muffled.


Crickets chirping
-muted.


Eyes closed
pondering


Everything is still.
Except my heart-
...beating


Everything is hushed.
Except my mind-
...speaking


Everything is quelled.
Except my soul-
...opening


to the wonders
of
Quietude



**submitted for Paula Swanson's Say the Word Contest :)...

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Sweet songs revel the shadows
a painted bunting's warble
hidden, as am I, living out
a poetic rhapsody of time

look away to where nature's winds
carry countless stories of love
patiently awaiting to lie down
on pristine sheets of pure passion

ink dipped in lavender lips of seda 
where the lines prosper...

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Standing
alone
on an
alpine
peak

hearing 
only the
distant
bleating
of mountain
goats


08.10.20


Writing Challenge - Septolet Form - Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Constance La France...

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Silent

event...

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Small songs at bedtime,
a chorus of night music
aloft from carpeted moss

Crickets are hidden 
with a cadence and rhythm
soften the weariest night




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9/19/14...

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Quietude gives rise to
quandaries, inquiries,
quintessential musings,
quemeful meditations,
qualitative praises,
quantitative goals and
questions unquenchable.

5-22-2021
Q Pleiades...

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winter's muffled voice
frost landing on my window 
sounds like quietude...

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One's thought is fleeting
like a breeze drifting in the space
as if seeking 
for something, wouldn't it be
a refuge of quietude?

04/04/16...

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sleeping silently
like un-hearing spoken words
on motionless clouds...
as reading in quiet thought
when dreams taciturnly watch......

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Ah, the tranquility of now
          What could be more liberating?
     A blissful silence, unbroken by nature
    These are always the best of moments
     Birds, for...

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