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Silent Silence

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Finding peace amidst the chaos is but one of the chores of Zen belief. Such focus was stirred up recently while watching a Colbert interview with Garret Keizer, author of the new book "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise."

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Silent Silence

 

Like a hooded falcon at rest

this Silence asks little

 

Listen

 

Fearing tumult at birth's door

mothers intuitively send the quiet asunder

knowing attachment bodes ill

one's preamble to being

 

Savagely Silence clings to grounding

aware

but not of danger

anticipating

but not of respite

 

Just as the falcon must ready the flight

as talon cinched safety gives way to change

to freedom's beckon

 

So too umbilical secures our random flings of arms and legs

knowing Silence gives way

to crawling

walking

running

 

Now ambulatory

moving through yesterday's Silence

leaving behind birth's soft caress

the inner soft voice asks

 

Why?

 

Modernity's torrid insistence

urges growth beyond

one's birthright

one's ambition

one's anything

 

While Silent Silence remains ever faithful

patient the longing

knowing the outer noise

is but an illusion 

begging to know

the unknown

 

 



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Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on March 21, 2012
I adore the metaphor of the hooded falcon, Odin. But it's such a travesty of itself: the falcon is born to flight. The hood, the tethers, the bells ringing round its talons, they are perhaps the "unwanted" vestiges of a grounded stillness that yet reminds it of the nature and purpose of its being. The external unwanted noise in our lives, ironically, takes us out of the unbearable inner white noise of silence sometimes - especially when the wait in transition becomes uncomfortable, as if waiting to give birth. Your work, I find, requires a deal of concentration and I like that. It also unsettles me as I am unsure of my ground in reviewing: bizarrely, I like that too! It is always the unknown that stirs the nest for flight and prepares the wings for journey. The discomfort of silence unbroken does the same. Absorbing, thank you. xx


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