ELOQUENT SILENCES
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently — Sri Chinmoy
Some seek to fill silences
which is strange because
silence is surprisingly full.
(I suppose they mix up its
absences with emptiness.
Kindred spirits and all that.)
From 1840 to 1980 interest
in silence waned but now,
now the tide has turned.
Maybe the Earth's constant
humming is finally getting to us.
FADE TO GREY
Sit by my side, and let the world slip – William Shakespeare
I used to turn my love up to eleven:
grand gestures, poems, diamonds,
the whole shebang.
These days, though, I pretty much
just have it on in the background.
Y'know, for company.
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years for which he blames Larkin. Who probably blamed Hardy. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels.
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