Poetry

Cheryl Gardner’s love for poetry sparked her desire to create the written word in forms that would inspire and move people. Poetry was her first encounter with her writing talent. It is a passion that has been life long. Cheryl will be creating a poetry book online. Until then, she shares some of her favorites with you on her Portfolio.

An Introduction to Cheryl Gardner’s Poetic Muse

Inner Voice

Silence, black and dull, surrounds me
Crushing me with it’s weight.
In my mind, sounds softly hearken
Amidst the silence in flight.
I listen intently with bent ear
For just one syllable to surrender.
But the thoughts all render, in fear
And refuse my closed mouth to enter.
Words that once were vocal
Became whispers in my mind.
Images of sound….captured….
Sound waves ~ swirling blind.
The weight grows more heavy
As the volume of sound increases…
All trapped in the void of silence
Where in the vastness, it ceases.
Like a tempest energy grows…..
Mounting thoughts and sounds build.
A mighty Deluge ~ bursts and flows.
The silence broken….I speak one word.

Cheryl Lynn Gardner
Copyright June 5, 1997

This work published in the concise Anthology titled “Sketches of the Soul”
The National Library of Poetry. Copy recorded at the Library of Congress.
Sound Recording made July 1997