Stillness moves me
When I see a scene like this I’m silenced.
My gaze is frozen. My soul is not.
Imagine.
Standing still. Listening.
Hearing the ice on the tree branches crackle.
Hearing your breath. Seeing your breath.
You can almost hear the sound of the sunlight sparkling across the snow.
Icy voices of wintry breezes whisper in your ears.
Frosty fingers play with your hair.
Caress your lips.
The cold pinches your cheeks.
You’re awake. Refreshed.
Alive.
If you go seeking for yourself, you could seek forever.
Stop.
Allow the stillness to find you.
To touch you. To whisper to you.
The stillness will move you.
You’ll cease to seek because you’ll know you’ve been found.
I hope you enjoyed this moment of stillness :-)
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Is this your composition Davina? It’s liberating and deep. Stillness, I want it to find me. :-)
Davina – Your gifts are amazing. This is the most powerful piece you’ve written. Stunning – the strength of a whisper.
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“My gaze is frozen. My soul is not.”
Exquisite.
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You took me to one of my favorite places. Wonderful and Thanks.
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Beautifully written and inspirational. Yes winter is for deep reflection, rest and marshaling of resources and she certainly does bless us with her startling silence. Thank you for this beautiful pause in my day.
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Hi Davina .. that’s a wonderful photo and your description ideal .. I’d love to have you playing the post quietly in my ear .. while I sit outside in the warmth of a cosy chair, with a hot chocolate, absorbing that icy magnificence – just being.
How I achieve it I don’t know .. in the midst and depth of the pristine landscape … but it would be lovely to be there for a while, just listening, absorbing, seeing through wide eyes, and sleepy eyes to get the feel and sensation of being there …
Lovely – amazing picture .. Hilary Melton-Butcher
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Hi Walter.
The good thing about stillness finding you is that it doesn’t have to chase you. It’s everywhere. We just miss it in all our hurrying. Yes this is my composition. Funnily enough, I spent the least amount of time on this out of any post I’ve ever written. Who’d have thought?
Hi Betsy.
Thank you! I wrote it so fast I hardly knew what was going to come out. Just memories of me letting nature in. Appreciating.
Hi Deb.
Hey nice to see you over here :) Glad you enjoyed. This is testament to how much I LOVE nature.
Hi Fred.
Thank you. So glad to oblige :-D Come back for more when stillness eludes you. Or, should I say… when you elude it…
Hi Tom.
You’re welcome. When I saw this picture it made me realize how much I miss winter and the words just tumbled out. The crunchy snow and icicles… sigh. Can a person actually “warm up” to the cold? :-)
Hi Hilary.
I’d like to join you in your vision. And guess what? I enjoy reading to people, so I’d love to play this post quietly for you. As long as I can have one of those hot chocolates.
Those sensations you speak of… they are a gift aren’t they? I like the words you chose: “Pristine Landscape; listening, absorbing.” It’s like we’re being held by a parent. Cradled.
I REALLY enjoyed that moment of stillness, yes, Davina.
The line about the sound of the sunlight sparkling on the snow touched me deeply and made me miss the hush of winters my heart remembers so well.
I don’t suppose you get much ice and snow in Van, do you?
xo
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Hi Davina .. absolutely a date in the future somehow somewhere ..
Enjoy today and all days … Hilary
Beautiful. Breath-taking. Brilliant.
I love it!
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Davina- This took my breath away.
Thank you for bringing beauty to an otherwise gray day.
Cynthia
Wonderful write, I did stop sit and enjoy, thank you.
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You can almost hear the sound of the sunlight sparkling across the snow.
Oh Yeah!
You hooked me from the first line. I relate completely… beautiful, Davina!
“You can almost hear the sound of the sunlight sparkling across the snow.”
You show us the world, but then you go deeper — dancing with words — to make us feel the world as you do. That’s rare.
Thank you.
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Hi Jannie.
Good! I too miss the hush of winter. We don’t get a lot of ice and snow in Vancouver. Last year we were dumped on. This year we had one dusting of snow that lasted a day.
Hi Hilary.
You too. So far so good over here.
Hi Lisis.
Hey thanks for coming by. :-D Glad you enjoyed this.
Hi Cynthia.
Welcome & thanks for your comment. I’m pleased that your gray day was brightened by this. Yes!
Hi Hazel.
A Twitter buddy. Hi! I appreciate your comment. Oh Yeah! :-)
Hi Barb.
Awh thank you. What would we do without Mother Nature?
Hi Lori.
It’s a real treat to be able to access these feelings AND to be able to share them here. Thank you :-D
What a great photo. This post had the least amount of your time writing it. Amazing!
This reminds me of last winter when we got three feet of snow. I would sit outside at night and enjoy the view of Vancouver covered in snow. It was so quiet and peaceful. Another special winter moment was the big wind storm a few years ago. All of Vancouver lost power and had a few inches of snow. At night there were no lights at all. All the stars covered the sky. So beautiful and peaceful.
Now I want to go camping in the winter.
I generally dislike stillness… I’m more of a fidgety type. ;) But in this case, I enjoyed it very much! Beautiful, Davina.
Wow, absolutely beautiful. I actually felt myself slowing down and experience stillness as I read your poem. You write wonderful.
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Hi Davina. Simply beautiful. Fleeting though its visits, silence has found me over and over again. And for me, what follows silence is just as beautiful: inspiration.
Hi Davina,
Beautiful. Both your words and the photo.
As I was looking at the picture it reminded me of when we have, what we call “ice fog”. I could stare at the beauty it creates for hours. In fact, I often think I should take a picture, but I get so engrossed I take a snapshot in my memory instead.
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Beautiful words! I never used to enjoy stillness in my younger years. However, I find myself embracing it more and more. In deep silence, I may be alone but I’m never lonely.
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Davina,
That was beautiful. I woke up to a scene like that outside my window just a few days ago. It was stunning and just as you said, a moment of stillness and a time out just to reflect and count my blessings.
This was a nice reminder of that moment.
I so enjoyed my visit with stillness. Thank you so much for sharing in so many ways. Great photograph – all of it takes me right there.
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That captures how I often feel outside in the winter. Stillness is so hard to come by in our modern world.
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Hi Jim.
You can go camping in the winter if you wish. Have fun with that. :-) One day I’d like to try it… just once.
I remember the snow Vancouver had last year. My neighbours built an igloo on the front lawn of the apt building. It’s nice to be able to see the stars in the sky; not something a city person can do very often.
Hi Vered.
Thanks :) Glad you enjoyed.
Hi Avani.
Thank you. It was just as if you were standing with me there in that field right? What a beautiful view in that pic.
Hi Belinda.
“What follows silence is just as beautiful: inspiration.” I love that! You’re right that DOES happen.
Hi Barbara.
Thank you. :) I like the mysteriousness of fog. Scary to drive through, but gorgeous just the same. The best thing about that memory snapshot is that it’s easier to access than a picture.
Hi Evelyn.
Thanks. Some people seem to find stillness and quiet disconcerting. I know people who have to have the radio or tv on just for background noise. Deep silence doesn’t feel lonely does it? I find it fulfilling.
Hi Wendi.
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. :-) Your blessings are crystal clear when you’re still.
Hi Patricia.
You’re welcome. And all it took was… a minute? :-D
Hi Dot.
Our modern world IS a noisy one. I hear neighbours slamming doors and walking through the hallway loudly. I don’t think people realize how much noise they are making; they’re so accustomed to it.
Hi Davina — thanks for this — it’s incredible how trees have no problem with spending their entire existences where they are, soaking up whatever the sun and rain have to offer. There’s a lot for us to learn from that I think.
That is simply beautiful and I know I would be silenced too. Winter seems to be Nature’s way of slowing things down and getting us into a reflective mode.
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Hi Chris.
We can learn a lot from nature even just through the appreciation of it. How do you know that trees have no problem spending their entire existence where they are? Maybe they suffer in silence :-) They do reach out a lot though, don’t they?
Hi BK.
That seems to be the general consensus about winter; being reflective. Unless you’re a wild snowboarder or skier. Then again, there is reflection in movement too. Zoning out to zone in… :)
xo
Just passing thru on my way to a pot of green tea.
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Hello Jannie.
A moment of stillness and a pot of green tea. Good combo… before doing those butt lifts :-D
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Davina — WOW. You really can write. Thanks for sharing your talent with us:~)
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Hi Sara.
Good wintry memories were inspired by that photograph. Thanks :-)
I feel like this when I’m in the mountains. No snow here! But I remember these scenes and believe they are snow at it’s best.
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Hi Tess.
These scenes don’t stick around too long either. Guess that’s part of the beauty of it. I love the mountains too. That’s what brought me to BC.
This is brilliant Davina. I love how stillness finds you sometimes when you’re walking and this has reminded me of a good feeling.
The pic is awesome too. Did you manage to make it snow in Vancouver for the Olympics, or is it an old pic?
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Hi Cath.
No snow here for the Olympics, though there is some up in the mountains. They’ve had to close one ski hill that I know of to preserve the snow and they’re making lots of snow. I’m not a huge fan of the Olympics but I hope that Mother Nature cooperates for the fans. This is a picture I found on Flickr.com.
Beautiful poem, Davina. So evocative that I didn’t even need that wonderful photo to imagine that I was there. I apire to write poetry that’s even half as good as this. :)
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Wow, thanks for your comment Tony. Nature inspires this in me — I just can’t help it. I’ve seen your artwork and could say the same; I aspire to draw even half as good as you do.