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This weeks Carry On Tuesday prompt is from the poem Farewell. The opening lines are Don't speak, words will only steal the moment.
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Shhhh, listen to the stillness
Is that the distant squeak of a grasshopper I hear?
And over there, a rasping cricket chirruping in the grass.
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And in that tree, the one over there,
I’m sure I hear a song of a thrush
Yes, there it is and there’s another.
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There’s a rustling in the undergrowth, hark,
It’s the sound of a scurrying creature.
Look there it goes, a fox heading for the open field beyond.
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What’s that splashing, it’s coming from the stream
Over there,I see it, a shoal of silver trout
leaping, jumping splashing in the sparkling water.
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Sit with me here, let’s not move
We’ll just listen to the stillness
Let’s not speak, for words will only steal the moment.
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This harks back to the glorious imagery created by the Romantics. There is so much going on in the natural world that any sign of a human would spoil it. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteContrasting imagery. I like that!
ReplyDeleteyou steal the moment
you have the magic touch when it comes to describing nature...
ReplyDeleteI like these images that build a sense of reality, of being there, hushed, observing. The earlier piece on Rosey was heart-rending, a sense of pride and loss mingled with hope for a good future. Always a pleasure to read your work.
ReplyDeleteHow many wonderful sounds from nature we hear if we are still and tune our ears to the moment.
ReplyDeletewhats with the green ?????
ReplyDeleteyou an closet irish person?
Keith..wish you had lent your voice for this. I had to read...while it painted the picture.
ReplyDeletesilver trout and sparkling water ...i could see and hear the splash too!