“To sit in solitude,
to think in solitude with only
the music of the stream
and the cedar to break the flow of silence,
there lies the value of wilderness.”
— John Muir
weighted with worry
resting now in quieting space
silence boosts the soul
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Solitude ~ Swan among reeds • photo by Jan Logozzo, Haiku poem* Solitude by Mary O’Connor
© 2020
* Haiku: a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
I love your poem…really speaks to what we are going through right now. 🙂
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Thanks. That’s what I was hoping to do! Hope you are doing well!
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Wishing you a good Memorial Day weekend…hard to believe it is actually here! 🙂
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I know, it kind of snuck up on us! You, too, enjoy!
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Nice picture and nice description.
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