POETRY FOR LIFE
Dancing With the Silence
And the mystery
Shadows of leaves
blown by April winds
appear fleetingly on sunlit walls
while birdsong drifts
from languid, leafy branches,
and in the slow-moving river,
swirls emerge
slowly, tentatively,
almost invisibly,
as though the conscious universe
were discovering itself
woven into substance
slowly waking up to itself
inside all life,
while nourishing our heart
like spring brings blossom to trees,
bringing fresh meaning,
helping us know
the beauty in every moment
happens only now.
Like the moon, serene,
unwavering
through wind-blown cloud,
a conscious silence everywhere
is re-weaving all our inner space
with the intelligence that brings birdsong
and the beauty of flowers,
the consciousness that guides all life
and every human heart,
writing the unwritten
into every fleeting moment,
bringing us
to where we are
here and now, today,
dancing with the silence
and the mystery.
Paul Mulliner 2023
I’m a writer and digital artist/animator based in London.
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