Wednesday 3 September 2008

Silence

When I was at college, there was someone in the year above me who wrote poems. Many of his poems still toss around in my head. I have no idea if he ever published them, or even what his full name was, but I thought I would share one with you.

Silence

A thousand stuttering words
Could never match
The eloquence
of a silence
and the library of context
in which it is heard

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hobbit whispers... "It's quite hard to comment on a topic about silence..." Shhh! Oops. Clearly it's quite hard for a hobbit to keep quiet too.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for sharing that Wren - that is a beautiful poem.

malakyte said...

It sounds like a haiku or something similar.