A Moment of Silence

Please give me a moment of silence
A pause for serenity
Of total presence
And complete absorbance

Give me a listening ear
To hear the unsaid words
To share expressive glances
And take in hidden thoughts
Be lost in understanding
Reaching out to each other
while standing still

Let's speak again
without words
Let's read more
and speak less
Let the trust
flow again...
Let us be one!

My All Time Favorite

Daffodils

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1804)