Steven Federle Poems

day begins
glint of grey,
gust nudges the curtain
sun lights my face
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"Silence can carry many different messages; it can be a powerful form of communication." Thomas Merton

Your silence sings in
emerald leaves glistening
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a bird peers down from
my neighbor’s roof, waiting for
my silence to fall.

where there were five trees
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Like
waters
rushing in
trees sing in the breeze,
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Night Rises
From the still-warm earth

Climbs rough trunks to
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'Oh, listen to that darkness, listen to that deep darkness, listen to those seas of darkness on whose shores we stand and die. Now can we have you, peace, now can we sleep in Your will, sweet God of peace? Now can we have Your Word and in Him rest? ' Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours.

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edge of night,

cold consuming
blackening hills,

clears barely
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“We have become more humble than the rocks,
More wakeful than the patient hills.” Thomas Merton A Book of Hours

The morning fog flows like milk
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i.
November lies in wait, violent month
stripping life from the garden
wind ripping leaves from living trees.
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“Make ready for the face that speaks like lightning, uttering the new name of your exaltation deep in the vitals of your soul. Make ready for the Christ, Whose smile like lightning sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps in your paper flesh, like dynamite.” Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours
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