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SPIRIT
Senior Member

since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

0 posted 2008-12-12 05:35 PM

Vow of Silence

A vow of silence
even if barricaded behind
Monastery or Convent walls
…would appear unattainable.

How can such quiet exist,
when the mind is never still?
It runs rampant
…like a fast train to nowhere,
or a ball bouncing constantly
in a tunnel of the past,
present and future.
It has enticed, captured
…and absorbed
so many hopes and dreams,
nightmares and memories
that they never fade
…nor cease to be heard.

Where is the silence,
the still ~ the calm?
A vow of silence,
even behind the walls of holiness
…would appear unattainable.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2008-12-13 03:28 AM

Actually Spirit, I can go to a place where I obtain total silence finally. It took me years to finally be able to "still myself" enough to get there, but now that I have it, I escape there quite often as it is a wonderful place. Loved your poem.

Happy Holidays, Love Mysteria

SPIRIT
Senior Member

since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

2 posted 2008-12-13 01:15 PM

I can somewhat but cannot maintain it for a beneficial period of time. Outside interference often intrudes. Never managed to get a handle on meditation either, not for lack of trying though.

Thanks for reading

Dinah

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

3 posted 2008-12-15 05:21 PM

Dinah:

I loved this poem and would like to be able to reach that "island of quiet" in this busy world. Not to be for me apparently!

Betty Lou

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Anniepimm
Senior Member

since 2008-12-26

Posts 550
England

4 posted 2008-12-27 01:05 PM

I like this i am in a very lucky place were i can sit quiet with no noise what so ever,
So i can identify with this and as i meditate very often i like being in the quiet

Thanks very much for sharing.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

5 posted 2008-12-27 08:48 PM

Yes it is a hard place to visit at will but sometimes the silence is more than I can bear, and I need to find sound. Love, Joyce

Blood.Wolf
Member

since 2009-02-09

Posts 54
GA, USA

6 posted 2009-02-10 12:09 PM

You know. This opened my eyes. One never does hear silence anymore. There's always some whir if machinery or chatter of people. There's absolutely no time to lay at rest, listening to the sounds of nature. I've vowed to escape the bonds of humanity and just... enjoy nature. Thank you for this. Thank you.

Hope Fleeting
Member

since 2009-02-23

Posts 52
Smalltown, Somewhere

7 posted 2009-02-25 12:40 PM

so many hopes and dreams,
nightmares and memories
that they never fade
…nor cease to be heard.

This reminds me of my own mind...It never wants to slow down for a minute, much less longer to mediate.

Thank you for sharing this

~ Previously Known as Broken_Winged_Angel and BrokenWinged_Angel~

I know when to bow my head in defeat and move on...

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