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Still Life with Silence

Posted on July 15, 2020 by robert okaji

Still Life with Silence

Not two, but one,
invisible

and stretched between
stump and fence,

filled with
time, defining

implication. Empty
the pitcher. Accept

its limitations.
Listen to what is not.

“Still Life with Silence” first appeared here in October 2016.

7 thoughts on “Still Life with Silence”

alisonmcghee on July 15, 2020 at 8:21 am said:

Lovely. Thank you.

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- robert okaji on July 15, 2020 at 12:41 pm said:
  
  Thanks very much, Alison.
  
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Jazz Jaeschke on July 15, 2020 at 8:53 am said:

Thank you for that closing – “Listen to what is not” – so easy to entangle in the obvious (be it positive or negative) and miss out on a vast array of signals, possibilities, opportunities. And twisting your title, I’m reading: There is still LIFE despite SILENCE … silence being relative to listener’s attention, patience.

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- robert okaji on July 15, 2020 at 12:42 pm said:
  
  That deep silence is difficult to harness.
  
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brijkaulblog on July 16, 2020 at 2:10 am said:

LOVELY ONE . thank you for such good poesy.

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- robert okaji on July 17, 2020 at 8:40 am said:
  
  Thank you for your kind comments.
  
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  - brijkaulblog on July 17, 2020 at 1:26 pm said:
    
    All the best . God bless you
    
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