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Billy Collins - Silence

Now it is time to say what you have to say.
The room is quiet.
The whirring fan has been unplugged,
and the girl who was tapping
a pencil on her desktop has been removed.

So tell us what is on your mind.
We want to hear the sound of your foliage,
the unraveling of your tool kit,
your songs of loneliness,
your songs of hurt.

The trains are motionless on the tracks,
the ships are at restn the harbor.
The dogs are cocking their heads
and the gods are peering down from their balloons.
The town is hushed,

and everyone here has a copy.
So tell us about your parents—
your father behind the steering wheel,
your cruel mother at the sink.
Let's hear about all the clouds you saw, all the trees.

Read the poem you brought with you tonight.
The ocean has stopped sloshing around,
and even Beethoven
is sitting up in his deathbed,
his cold hearing horn inserted in one ear.

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Silence - Comments and Information

Poet: Billy Collins
Poem: Silence
Volume: Picnic, Lightning
Year: Published/Written in 1998

Comment 3 of 3, added on April 20th, 2013 at 12:48 AM.
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Comment 2 of 3, added on April 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 1 of 3, added on April 1st, 2009 at 1:55 PM.

I think the poem silence is all about wet carrot sitting under the summer sun. It is getting dryer and dryer by the second. The carrot's life is soon to be over but out of no where a little girl picks it up and takes it home. She puts it in a pot of water and saves the carrots life. The girl befriends the carrot and gets married to it because it is a guy carrot. They move into a nice suberban home and live a long happy life together. They grow old with eachother and the ironic part of this is that the lady ends up drying up and dying before the carrot does. So the moral of this story is to not pick up dry carrots.

Jasmine Frye from United States

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