Soul Rest

Soul Rest

A Poem by RuseInex
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Everyone has a favorite place for peaceful reflection, mine involves nature's presence

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quietude is my peace
My rest, away from fellow humans

It is in the midst of a blowing hard, moving rain. 
Driving against a window pane, 
In the night while all sleep
Howling 
Woooing, splattering, tapping hard on a roof
Or tent,
Wind and rain
Wailing forlorn and lonely 
Deep into the strings of my soul
The kind of thing that makes me
Hurt and cry, but brings me fullness
And peaceful quiet
Kind of like 
You get in an old west ghost town
Dust and tumbleweeds fly
Across an empty street
No one else around, but shadows

Quietude and peace is no one to talk to
An empty house in the country
Only a June bug and it’s high pitched 
Frequency shrill piercing

The air yet still, so still, so quiet,
Ringing in my ear

Quietude and peace is me and a mild wind,
In the west, my home,
My rural country 
A breeze drifting from a far away arroyo
Dried creek beds filled with stones

The crackling sound of a jumping grasshopper
Yellow camouflaged on silty soil
Me sitting under a cottonwood 
Following the scent of the wind to those
Smooth foothills, purple and brown
Not far away

Quietude is my peace
No one else around,
The smell of sage 
Looking up that cottonwood’s leaves

Just me and
Leaves stirring, stems turning slow
Sparkles of silver, 
Then turning fast, 
The wind blowing from far away
Speaking softly, impressions to me while
Twisting leaves wildly, reflecting grey,
Giving them rustling voices
Peaceful sounds, like wind chimes 
Onionskin paper

I sit at peace and in quiet 
With high noon’s dancing light,
Shadow and light mottled moving all
Around the ground at my feet
The pungent smell of bark and musty soil
Lonely coooo, cooooing of a beige, grey dove
Undisturbed, high in the branches
Just me and a small 
Beetle trudging in the dirt below
At my feet, 
In the shadow of the cottonwood tree

Peace and quiet is trekking on a trail, at 12,000 feet or more
In the high sierra, 
Hot summer day, sharp stones underfoot
Brittle, sharp sounds like dense shards of clay
Rising from my soles
Poetic sounds
Creaking backpack, slow rhythm of motions
In walking for miles
Sand’s grit, . . . soft sizzling sound,
Smell of body sweat, bright blue sky overhead
Breathing in, . . . out, in, . . . out
Heart thumping in my veins

In the quiet, I hear, “Why do you walk, why do you climb?”
In peacefulness of the wild places of the Sierra Nevada
I hear a voice, “You walk and climb because it’s there.”
Then, I contemplate, and find it hard at first to answer

“No, that would be in vain, 
I go to these places to escape myself
To hear sounds I can’t hear at work
Or when surrounded by people, 
Even those I love

To be alone and just let 
Be 
Alone and just let go 
That place where no one wants 
Anything of me, or me of them
#poetry

© 2015 RuseInex


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RuseInex
RuseInex

Fresno, CA



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