Spoken Silence

The winds whisper

Ripples the river

The trees giggle

Echoes a fiddle

Melody plays

Momentary gaze

Zephyr wind whistles

Rose and thistles

Drumbeat of my heart  

Thunders as we depart

Emmaus road lays behind

Three cords twined

Hay stacks stoically stand

Bethels on the farmland

East wind whispers

Past names and figures

Teardrops caress and memories blister

Shadows dance a morose ballet

Words betray

Orchestra notes crack like mirrors

A thousand diamonds flicker in rivers

On Terabithia’s bridge

Forest murmurs a ghostly pitch

Spoken silence speaks

Stories written under mountain peaks

Time’s carved lines upon stone

Strength sown

Softly moans

The woodland writes

Under northern lights

The minstrel marks

Codes on the bark

Read by storytellers and skylarks

The winds whisper.

By Shannon McKemie

11-09-07

Reworked 02-04-2017