the only sounds–
Ray Bradbury pages turning
and my beating heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I drift to sleep
on fairies’ wings\u2026
my phone on silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
even the crickets
have all gone to sleep–
late-night silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
oh the symphony–
if shooting stars
weren’t silent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have silent skills–
the scent of rain before it falls
the taste of cilantro<\/p>\n\n\n\n
your words spilled out
before you could filter them–
silence came too late<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sometimes
all that’s needed–
loving silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
raucous hail
gives way to snow\u2026
blissful silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a lifetime’s laughter
swallowed by the vacuum
of silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
as the sun wakens
before the world–
peaceful silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that moment
of silent introspection
to get your brave on<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a squeaky door
meets a miracle worker–
WD40-silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry has appeared internationally in a wide variety of journals, including Rue Scribe, The Ravens Perch, HaikUniverse, Haiku Corner, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly and The Haiku Foundation. Jennifer\u2019s haiku has recently won the 6th Basho-an International English Haiku Competition and was recently selected for the Golden Triangle Haiku Poetry Competition in DC. Her poetry has also been accepted into the Ars Nova Shared Vision project in Colorado and will be turned into a choral piece and performed in a series of concerts in the Denver area this June.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" the only sounds–Ray Bradbury pages turningand my beating heart I drift to sleepon fairies’ wings\u2026my phone on silence even the cricketshave all gone to sleep–late-night silence oh the symphony–if shooting starsweren’t silent I have silent skills–the scent of rain before it fallsthe taste of cilantro your words spilled outbefore you could filter them–silence came too … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-W1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}