Poetry

“The Sound of Silence”

| Laura Lee Bonde

I’ve heard that
silence
is a fruit
of promotion

but I’ve also heard that
silence
is a fruit
of isolation

knowing that a tree of life
grows upward
but a tree of death
withers away

I sometimes wonder

but the beauty of silence
is the song from the heart
that touches the soul
of who listens

“Without a Map”

| Laura Lee Bonde

someplace in my heart
words have grown silent
kept away
to hide how I feel

there’s just so much
going on

if my thoughts were a city
there’d be roads without signs
conversations without people
a cloud covering of doubt
not a good place to live

such a difference
from before

I think about decisions I’ve made
and ones pending

what’s worth the fight?
what needs to change?

I’ll never encourage one
to marry a stranger
I’ll never give advice
without listening

I used to think I was a leader
but now…
it might not be a good time
to follow

“Relationship Takes Two”

| Laura Lee Bonde

under His Glory
beneath the stars
on solid ground

He spends time with me

under His Glory
beneath the stars
on solid ground

I spend time with Him

could you imagine
if one of us
didn’t

if only “I” was talking
never hearing from God
never seeing a sign

and what about Him

if “He” was only talking
as I lived my life
apart from Him

Hosea was placed
in marriage
for a purpose

to show how
one-sided
the relationship was

my prayer is for all
to spend time with Him

under His Glory
beneath the stars
on solid ground

“Caught by Beauty”

| Laura Lee Bonde

my pursuit of beauty
has been
Beauty pursuing me

as He wants to show me
He speaks
and my heart responds
with the pursuit
of nature
of sunsets
of sunrises
stopping at nothing
except opposition

growing in a way
where opposition
no longer stops me