Felt Meaning
A poem by John Ziegler

Felt Meaning

It may arise from a painting.

After words have spoken color, texture, contrast,
when there is still more.

A memory nudged, a childhood moment
that deer drinking from a mountain stream
not noting your silent approach.

A vision of grandmother,
her old, soft hands at rest upon her lap.

It pulses beneath what can be described,
even beneath the feel of God’s breath
across your eyes in a daydream,
beneath God’s breath close by in a night dream.

It is a capture of what has touched you
in an unguarded moment,
has awakened that same breath
within yourself.

About the Author:

John Ziegler is a poet and painter, a gardener, a traveler, originally from Pennsylvania, who recently migrated to a mountain village in Northern Arizona.

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