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Words Call to You

Dick Holmes, Dick Holmes poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Dick Holmes
(1949 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

Like baby birds
in their nests
silently waiting for food,
their mouths wide open,
words call to you,
entreating you
to shape the silence
between them
and turn their sound
into nourishing song.

 

 

-- from Recipes for Gratitude, by Dick Holmes

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Themes

  Birds
  Food
  Silence
  Sound
 


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Recipes for Gratitude, by Dick Holmes

 

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