pafret Loc: Northeast

The Poet: John O'Donohue, “Draw Alongside The Silence Of Stone”


“Draw Alongside The Silence Of Stone”

“You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.”

- John O'Donohue

bggamers Loc: georgia

Beautiful thanks

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Nice, Pafret.

solarkin

Ok
That was pretty cool. Thanks

Squiddiddler Loc: Phoenix

That was good, here's another I like.

William B. Rands – THE WONDERFUL WORLD POEM

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast-
World, you are beautifully dressed

The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

You friendly Earth! how far do you go,
With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow,
With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles,
And people upon you for thousands of miles?

Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
"You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!"






“Draw Alongside The Silence Of Stone”