Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Two performers from the 2009 Australia Day presentation, Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impression #58 ~ Listening
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Listening is an art
The art of tuned calm silence
Music in the air
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
AUTUMN is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter
AUTUMN whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key
AUTUMN is an introspective season, when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul
- Gemma Wiseman
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I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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12 comments:
I love your post. Both pic and poem are perfect.
So very true. Great words.
Well said..
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Listening is an art too few appreciate.
I do believe there's as much to hear in silence as in any sound.
And...we can listen in the most din-filled chatoic environs!
Thanks for this--and the photo!
Silence has a music of it's own, doesn't it? Too few of us remember to listen to the silence... And sometimes we forget to listen to the music too. I like how your poem reflects both.
The image of tuned silence suggests to me peace and a sense of being connected to the world. Thanks, Gemma.
Listening indeed is an art. Thank you for this nice reminder.
I found out later in life that note taking helps a lot, it makes a better listener and now I have a reminder.
I do that for Sunday sermons in church. I didn't do that the first time I went to college and had to quit, I was a very poor student then.
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BTW, Beyonce and ZZ Top are two of our contemporary Houston performers. I grew up with ZZ Top in midlife.
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Oh, how sweet and true - love the photo and the words that mean so much.
"tuned calm silence"
Now that's unique.
You said it well..just right-
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