quiet

The Doldrums

Strange how the clouds come in; swirling gently around hills, caressing the land as they descend into the valleys of green; before long they have smothered the entire verdant landscape.  A quiet lays heavily upon the fields, and all seems motionless.  So is my mind now—again, for it seems all too regular these days.  Almost as a drunken stupor veiling my cogency with its heavy influence, a quiet hush imprints itself upon my occasionally frenetic thoughts; momentum is lost in that haze, and all attempts at forging new thoughts, new paths, new articulations—fall flat and silent long before their time. READ MORE

Echo

photo_12806_20090810

It seems that without fail

when I finally pull aside and still my racing mind,

when I choose to quiet all the noise that I allow

within me and without,

that without doubt

I hear the voice of God echo within. READ MORE