Meaning humbly awaits to be heard.
Meaning suffers the evisceration of words.
Were meaning to utter its own words they would say, “You no longer exist to me.” You who have and you who are- you are not. Instead you are the witness to the meaning of words.
But meaning humbly awaits your ears to open to silence, and your eyes to see all things before you as it were one thing in stillness-
one thing not speaking to itself, but silently waiting to be heard.
These words are within when meaning is understood.
Certainly [though] out of the abundance, (the copiousness, or the teemingness) of the heart, the mouth speaks those words (those articulates, those formulates, those intelligences, those phrases) that, in turn, reveal the programming of the mind and heart. The old saying: "you are what you eat" is far-reaching and describes much more than corporeal sustenance.
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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