Quotes From "Paulinskill Hours And Other Poems" By John Daniel Thieme

.. .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees–then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance–our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind.. . John Daniel Thieme

I wish to go down under the waters–the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe wait for... John Daniel Thieme

... though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars John Daniel Thieme

... the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole–but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins John Daniel Thieme

.. . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy .. . John Daniel Thieme

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time.. . John Daniel Thieme

We lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy. John Daniel Thieme