Welcome to this week’s poetry club tea date!
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a quick poem based on the following line, submitted by Every Day Poems reader Matthew Kreider. The line is from the recent poem delivery What We Would Give Up by Marie Howe.
please hold through the silence
Your Pour
Take a moment to write a poem based on the shared line. Then add to the comment box (with a touch of cream and sugar) so other club members can enjoy.
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L.L. Barkat says
Through the silence
I hear you holding
holding my please,
holding my I am so grateful,
thank you.
Please keep holding
through the however-long
through the it-is-so-very-still
silence
Andrew Wright says
Beautiful and haunting.
Monica Sharman says
Thanks for another wonderful prompt. (I think I’m becoming a Marie Howe fan!) Here’s my poem:
Please Hold
“You say it best when you say nothing at all.”
– Alison Krauss
No unspoken sentence wasted.
Every silent word was heard
when I said it the first time,
the second,
the third.
The strength in your fingers and hands can hold
through the silence, lyrics yet untold,
muted notes suspended in rests
of unknown length. Hold.
I know you can hold.
Please hold.
L.L. Barkat says
Those last two lines actually made me shiver.
(So happy to have you writing with us. 🙂 )
Andrew Wright says
Those last lines seem to speak of a desperation on the part of the narrator. A striking poem. Well done.
Megan Willome says
Agree with both L.L. and Andrew on this one. Thank you, Monica.
Andrew Wright says
Please Hold
A.Wright 07/08/20
Chilly day.
There’s rain in the air; petrichor.
And wait. There’s more.
Smoke from a chimney; burning pine
sap filling the flu stack.
Please hold through the silence.
Don’t rush into doing.
Be content to be.
Be contented.
Be still.
Listen! The morning greets you.
The song birds bid you good day.
A blessing is bestowed
on those who have ears to hear.
Please. Hold.
Through the silence.
The rest of THIS day will wait.
Bethany R. says
Thanks for introducing me to the word, petrichor, and for sharing your poem with the community.
Andrew Wright says
Happy to have been of assistance. 😉
Andrew Wright says
This New Day
A.Wright 11/8/20
That rain is gone.
That dawn has passed.
Those birds sing a new song.
If you missed it, don’t fret;
step outside and breathe in this day.
Breathe out the morning air.
The trees await your particular breath.
It is to them as sweet as incense.
This day;
it has never been before
with its new frost
and its new light.
This light has never touched your face before
and will never again.
Please hold through this new silence.
This new day
will also wait
while you
appreciate
this
moment.
Diane says
Please hold through the silence
My words unspoken, and
Know that silence speaks volumes
Of the feelings I cannot express.
You have left me behind
Yet the words keep coming.
Please hold through the silence
The love you can no longer hear.