Nadia Sohn Fink

 

Can you make a list?

Of feathers for the answering nest

With old feathers inside the young 

Exceptions to the rule

Young quite without destination

Question with what will you

Can you make a list?

Thomas Callahan

 

Cold today by ice from the sky

Bold traveling flakes grow into mountains

Hot as this long love that uses the snow to find beauty

How I long for my love

Do all snowflakes have partners making the long journey to Earth together

Or do they wander the sky yearning to find a love to keep them warm

The Dandelions by Fox Bailey

 

Yellow it uses to wave me over

Yellow it shouts

Yellow has light radiating

Surrounding

Yellow is joy making

Yellow is the smile

Very bright

And happy

Undercover each spring

Yellow bides its time

Until it's ready to turn on

And shine

Yellow

Can time find a way, I wonder.

 

Mountains and valleys heard the plan
Tired years of pouring rain
Honest trees echoed gale songs
Can heard songs fall asunder?

Lazy moments space out and last
Mad in my cagey mind
Lost nostalgic in a maze
Can time find a way, I wonder.

- By Arth S.

Group Poem

 

The Listener's Book Club has begun reading The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. The following poem is found in the beginning of the book:

Only in silence the word,

only in dark the light,

only in dying life:

bright the hawk's flight

on the empty sky.

-The Creation of Ea

The group created this poem in response:

Only in free fall

Only in fear, love

Only in Zoom, we commune

only in despair triumph

Only in sadness, hope

Only in love, the pain

Only in conflict the love

only in heat the cool breeze

Only in despair is hope.

Only in anger calm

Only in loss is recovery

Only in struggle the winning.

Only in chaos is order

Only in tragedy hope.

Only in craziness the wise

Only in trying times, love conquers all.

Only in moving stillness

only the sea awaits the seeable

-The Creation of the Members of Speaking is Overrated

Other Ways to Be Happy by Ryan Shank-Rowe

 

I feel sometimes we overthink the physical.

I wish we could all experience the beauty of silence.

To feel the lack of words is often the most profound moment.

My New Year's wish to everyone is to take the time to experience the silent.

Talking does not always bring excitement, joy or peace.

Your loudest word is your wish inside you kept fed by your own acceptance. 

The Love Letter by Sasha Rainer

                          

Home is the story from the past, 

Home is more than just love stories to sing, to read, to mark in memories.

Home is where the life cycle spins, where the love flower grows and blossoms. 

Home is where more than love dwells. 

The love for Mom’s song brings you home 

No matter how far you are. 

Home to remember when the struggle hits your life.

Words of love will make your heart and soul 

Singing the dear tune.