Soundings - Fran Claggett-Holland

[Lawrence Robinson]

Soundings
		For Michael Franco after reading
			his  poem on silence 
	
Oh, articulate silence, you loom large tonight
encompassing those well-hidden secrets  
with your clarity of vision, seeing into 
the deep soundings beneath the oceans 
as the whales give forth song after song 
to our unformed ears 

what we hear are the melodious songs
of those great beings as they sing
the deep secrets known to our forebears

desecrations to our fractured world 
prevent us from understanding
the depth and dark beauty of their songs 
but in the echoes of their voices we sense 
the truth and heartfelt sounds 
that almost speak to us as we listen 
to the mermaids in this ocean we call home	

	- Fran Claggett-Holland
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