One of a series of collaborative NFTs by digital artist Paul Petersen, aka SphericalArt, and Charlotte Hart, poet. spokenlandscapes.com
MUSIC OF SILENCE:
The soft lavender light of twilight drew near.
The aroma of green grass, Four O’clocks,
phlox and smoldering wood
drifted on the edge of consciousness.
I realized there was a fire inside the tree.
Within, it snapped and roared.
Air quivered near the bark.
High above, within the trunk
above a burl, in a hole, I could see
the shimmering hot orange
as a swirl of smoke reached out.
In the alchemy of an instant
a cyclone arose in my insistent heart.
It filled me with a numinous light.
Then the music came, red with a beat,
beatific and bright, that emanated in colors visible
and hidden in tones, radiating levels of intensity
that permeated everything.
There was not a human or creature’s body or plant
or river or dune without a tune, a time, a rhythm.
Ocean waves and planets,
stars and seasons, bees,
unfurling palm fronds,
hidden photons and electrons,
all played variations of music,
a symphony of cords majestic.
In a myriad of musical styles,
life sang and danced.
Time and space vibrated
in unique sumptuous sounds.
A divine energy and the pace of it,
the divine taste of it, entered me
and allowed me to see and hear
splendor in the storm.
The cords seemed to have power
to bring back the dead in a joyous
touch of redemption.
The unborn waited in liquid harmony,
umbilical cord of life, grace on every face.
The music is here, in silence,
our sacred days.
