Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

Where Silence Means Everything

Amid the foggy hills 

Is a vessel of kind thoughts

Which pours the water into lovely daydreams

And into the many warm springs of rainbow color. 


Upon the gray hills is a glassy house

Amidst the light of the warm suns above me

And in the water pitcher is three voices

With each as a ray of light. 


Inside, is a kind woman, the mother of my mother

She pulls down a gray book from a rusty shelf 

She speaks of love through Irish poems 

And in the dreamy letters she reads and yet not through the words. 


Amidst the cloudy mysteries of both gray and silver light 

I see a voice of times past like miles of shadow

As snowy old buildings are all painted bright colors 

In a vacuum of wisdom where silence means everything. 


She speaks again with voices young and ancient 

As with rushing water in the poem’s continuation

She speaks her good thoughts

Amidst many red flowers all hidden in a corn field.



The Fate of a Man

Great Moonlight