Silence- The Nearest Thing To God Poem by Norah Tunney

I am so glad that Kumarmai read this poem. Referring to it as a gem. Funny how most people run toward the noise of distraction to avoid themselves and to be lost in anything that makes them forget. We can't hide from ourselves. No matter how fast we run. I was speaking to someone recently and she was saying how wonderful it was when one weekend her husband and the kids were gone and she had the time to herself. She had this glow remembering how delicious that rare solitude was. She did not want the escape of a bar or casino. She wanted the weight of life to just be lifted. That sack she carried dumped in the corner at last. Freeing herself from herself and just being................a gem indeed.

What a beautiful and calming poem. Silence is a gift, peace is within us if we allow ourselves to rest.

A wonderful write, dear poetess. The picture here depicts peace in abundance. Thank you! !

Another lovely poem with a beautiful picture. I love the word 'silent' as it contains the letters 'listen'. When we are truly silent we can truly listen.

Calming write. Quietly descending on the reader's mind as a gentle morning after a wakeful night. A10

That is a beautiful and pure painting that accompanies this poem. That solitary tree seems to be in deep rapport with cloud overhead. // This poem conveys an ultimate kind of advice because if it is ignored, what is left? So many good things that can rescue us would be squandered, especially the association of God and silence, an opening to the healing forces that shy away from a mind filled with material things. Wallace Stevens wrote in one of his last poems, GOD AND THE IMAGINATION ARE ONE, just as in your poem GOD AND SILENCE ARE ONE. We need a meeting place where our human and divine energies can mesh, as in the painting you chose. That could be sacred ground if we made it so. We need that kind of uncompromising faith