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They say one cannot embrace pure silence,
But can they feel the silence embracing them?
Our minds in pausing and transitions,
Could it be…that
Within our souls is an air pocket or two?
Is there a space that should be filled?—can be filled?

The composer was aware by the traffic
That music is merely sounds
And he accepts those sounds and loves them!
Many have said if this was so,
How meaningless music would be!
But there is a certain truth to his words
That one can find buried inside 
Nothing is quiet
Everything is so loud 
Silence is naught but fought
And mechanical resonances bring peace to the heart 

Like sounds to music
Is like words to poetry
There is possibly no rhythm to it at all
But there is a mental tempo as hard as iron in this shackled mind 

Poems are all but words
I accept what they are
Simple, wonderful words

And they are embraceable
Even in our view of silence

-inspired by the composer John Cage on the “experience of silence and sound”-

© Laura Breidenthal  

I am here (solitude)
   and there is
     nothing to say
those who wish to get
somewhere
          let them leave at any

moment
          what we require is
silence (solitude)
but what silence
requires
      is that I go on
           talking

give any one
    thought
      a push
it
falls
    down easily
                but the pusher

and the pushed
                     produce
the entertainment
called
                     a discussion
shall we have
      one
                   later ?
or

we
      simply decide
not to
have
discussion (solitude)
whatever
you
          like
                but now

there are silences
    and the words
      make ( & ) help make
the silences 

I have
          nothing to say
and I am
saying it
and that
      is poetry
          as I need it
(and my solitude)

                (in my silence)

___________________________
November 9, 2019


Poetry/Verse/A Tribute to Cage and Solitude
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1195-084-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

A Tribute to the poem, Lecture on Nothing, John Cage
*the words in brackets are my addition to his poem


Written for FTI Blog Series 23 - Solitude
Brian Strand

Podium Place 1

© Constance La France