1 Matching Contest - Silence - Spring 2017 • Millikin University

 

we don't speak much
the dead
do the talking

a family portrait
in a huge house
not a sound is heard

bricks in my stomach
tell me
it's time to speak

head spinning
somewhere
someone will hear me

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watery eyes
walls start turning
back to bed

friends going out
soft pillow
beckons me in

silence
a small cough is heard
between fiction and nonfiction

i have always found beauty in
the freedom you have
alone with the stars

 

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roommates gone this weekend
my only company
the sound of a washing machine

tv off
lights off
silence

shoreline waves
calm breeze
the mother snores

sitting on a bridge
tossing rocks
day's end

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sitting on our dock
feet barely touching the water
still see her reflection

counting freckles
I pull the sheets
heavy breathing

rose petals fall
   the stem bends
still no calls

seven white roses
one petal
. . . falling

 

© 2017, Randy Brooks • Millikin University. All rights returned to authors upon publication.