POETRY OF SILENCE

Poetry of silence, poetry of sound
Poetry of darkness, poetry of light
Poetry of summits, poetry of ground
Poetry of sunrise, poetry of night.

      Love of poetry is poetry of life.

Poetry of blue sky, poetry of cloud (1)
Poetry of sunset, poetry of dawn
Poetry of hermit, poetry of crowd
Poetry of red deer, poetry of fawn.

      Love of poetry is love of life.

Poetry of forest, poetry of field
Poetry of valleys, poetry of hills
Poetry of sowing, poetry of yield
Poetry of harvest, poetry of mills.

       Love of poetry is life on wings.

Poetry of desert(2), poetry of lake
Poetry of seagull, poetry of flock
Poetry of drizzle, poetry of flake (3)
Poetry of river, poetry of rock.(4)

       Love of poetry is life that sings.

Poetry of fountain, poetry of fire
Poetry or marble, poetry of wood
Poetry of piano, poetry of lyre
Poetry of choir, poetry of mood.

      Poetry is countless dappled things. (5)

Poetry of laughter, poetry of tears (6)
Poetry of treetops, poetry of roots
Poetry of sorrows, poetry of cheers
Poetry of blossoms, poetry of fruits.

      Love is poetry – as love is life.(7)

Poetry of cyclone, poetry of calm
Poetry of tempest, poetry of breeze
Poetry of willow, poetry of palm
Poetry of passion, poetry of peace. (8)

    Poetry is music, poetry is flame.

Poetry of perfume, poetry of smoke
Poetry of pauper, poetry of king
Poetry of sovereign, poetry of folk
Poetry of winter, poetry of spring.

     Poetry is season, poetry is breath.

Poetry of old man, poetry of youth
Poetry of deacon, poetry of pope
Poetry of fiction, poetry of truth
Poetry of promise, poetry of hope.

     Poetry is image, poetry is space.

Poetry of giant, poetry of worm (9)
Poetry of nuance, poetry of whole
Poetry of substance, poetry of form
Poetry of body, poetry of soul.

     Poetry is beauty, poetry is truth.(10)

1. William Wordsworth, Daffodils
2. Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Wasteland
3. Robert Frost, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
4. Rainer Maria Rilke, Quatrains Valaisans
5. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
6. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tears Idle Tears
7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I Love Thee?
8. Wilfried Owen, Anthem for doomed Youth
9. Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worm
   10. John Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn