The+Visitant

 A cloud moved close. The bulk of the wind shifted. A tree swayed over water. A voice said: Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay.
 * Poem || Similarities || Song ||
 * ==The Visitant ==

Dearest tree, I said, may I rest here? A ripple made a soft reply. I waited, alert as a dog. The leech clinging to a stone waited; And the crab, the quiet breather.

Slow, slow as a fish she came, Slow as a fish coming forward, Swaying in a long wave; Her skirts not touching a leaf, Her white arms reaching towards me.

She came without sound, Without brushing the wet stones, In the soft dark of early evening, She came, The wind in her hair, The moon beginning.

I woke in the first of morning. Staring at a tree, I felt the pulse of a stone.

Where’s she now, I kept saying. Where’s she now, the mountain’s downy girl?

But the bright day had no answer. A wind stirred in a web of appleworms; The tree, the close willow, swayed. ||  Personification:  Human traits given to non-human items or creatures.

Simile: A comparison of two things using like or as.

Repetition: A word or phrase said twice or more. || **Sounds of Silence** Paul Simon

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">I turned my collar to the cold and damp <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">That split the night <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And touched <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">the sound of silence

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And in the naked light I saw <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Ten thousand people, maybe more <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">People talking without speaking <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">People hearing without listening <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">People writing songs that voices never share <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And no one dared <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Disturb the <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">sound of silence

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">"Fools", said I, "You do not know <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Silence like a cancer grows <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Hear my words that I might teach you <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Take my arms that I might reach you" <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">But my words, like silent raindrops fell <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And echoed <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">In the wells of silence

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And the people bowed and prayed <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">To the neon god they made <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And the sign flashed out its warning <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">In the words that it was forming <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And tenement halls" <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And whispered in the sounds of silence ||