Winter Sounds of Silence

Picture by Sweet J
The Sounds of Silence
The morning was mute, quiet and still as I awoke from a peaceful rest;

The sounds of silence were a soft calm and peace was mine -

I was blessed.

A hushed world was solemn in thought at the silence all around;

Snowflakes fell like pure-white feathers

and never made a sound.

A lull like this, in a busy world,was Nature's gift of wonder;

I stifled thoughts of anything

that might put it asunder.

For just awhile on a winter's morn, I turned within, in awe;

Listening to the sounds of silence

and the beauty that I saw.

Joan Adams Burchell