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April 19, 2025

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Hear your own singing


Saturday morning,  
the birds create a stir but 
the wind holds its breath  

Copyright 2025 Brenda Davis Harsham

Notes:  To the many people celebrating Easter and Passover over the next few days, I wish you joy. I hope you have space to contemplate things that make you happy and to hear your inner voice saying positive things. 

….There is a whole
deep world of being in your soul,
burdened with mystery and thought.
The noise outside will snuff it out.
Day’s clear light can break the spell.
Hear your own singing – and be still.

— an excerpt of Fyodor Tyutchev 
from The Guardian’s quote of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, 
edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski and
published by Penguin Classics

12 thoughts on “Hear your own singing”

  4. I don’t go back and read the blogs I follow as often as I wish, but when I saw this post today I realized I hadn’t seen you in a while! I’m going back to read your other recent poists, but WELCOME BACK! (see… people pay more attention than you think!)

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