O’er the Solemn Hush of Midnight

“O’er the solemn hush of midnight”,              (Christmas Carol)

“The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, 

Have left me to that solitude, which suits 

Abstruser musings”                                    (Frost at Midnight, Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

And I sit here in my well-lit room,

In the darkest and coldest hours of this winter night,

Pounding away at keys on my laptop,

Wedding poetry to music, and Coleridge to Simon and Garfunkel.

“But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence”                              (The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel)

“Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, 

Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm, 

Fill up the intersperséd vacancies 

And momentary pauses of the thought! “    (Frost at Midnight, Coleridge)

“Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams quiet walks by quiet streams
And a window that looks out on the mountains and the sea,

oh how lovely
This is where I want to be

here with you so close to me
Until the final flicker of life's ember.”         (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Frank Sinatra)

Anurupa.

31.12.2016