Quiet Stillness Flows

Quiet stillness flows
Like milk coating messy
Spilling over marble cool viscous
Revealing from out the stone
Soft skin and a smile
An outreached hand
Oh Mother Oh Sister
Beckoning individually
Penerating deep within the soul
To touch the sanguine spirit
The pulsating rhythm of human beings
Given over to service
Given up as offering
Given hope and salve
Given sweet harmonies
The Diety Herself inviting mere mortals
To sing a duet with pure love
Faith burning warm and nourishing
Like a fine sherry
Like a whiskey-laced coffee
Like a bees wax scented pleasuring with vanillas
And sweet berries
And ocean spray hints
Floral aromatic throws
Like the clergy anointing the crowd
With holy water-soaked fresh-picked evergreen branches
A babbling brook-like freshness aerated
Before landing as grace on the forehead
There spread by cross-drawing thumb tips
On brow on lips on heart
Oh sprinkle this blessing on me
Quiet stillness flowing
Like milk coating messy
Spilling over marble cool viscous
Revealing from out of stone
Soft skin and a smile
An outreached hand
Oh Brother Oh Father
Beckoning individually
Penetrating deep within the soul
To touch the sanguine spirit


For Sketches
Denis J. Kelly
March 7, 2012