Diane Vogel Ferri’s full-length poetry book is Everything is Rising (Luchador Press). Her latest novel is No Life But This: A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling (Atbosh Media) Her essays have been published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scene Magazine, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among others. Her poems can be found in numerous journals such as Wend Poetry, Blue Heron Review, Rubbertop Review, and Poet Lore. Her previous publications are Liquid Rubies (poetry), The Volume of Our Incongruity (poetry), and The Desire Path (novel). She has done many poetry readings locally. Diane’s essay, “I Will Sing for You” was featured at the Cleveland Humanities Festival in 2018. A former teacher, she holds an M.Ed from Cleveland State University and is a founding member of Literary Cleveland. Her poem, For You, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net 2023

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Heaven

In this one sacred moment
I am thinking about nothing on Earth
- as it is in heaven.
I feel nothing but a breeze lifting my hair.
I hear nothing but bird songs near and far
and the low shushing of the leaves
moving against each other.
It is a pleasing, singular void,
a reverie of quietude
when every sense is stilled
except for God.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow that is so deep! Some how, I missed that you were a Special Ed Teacher. That is wonderful. Teachers have a special place in my heart but that is even that much better. No wonder you have such a great insight hear.

Ruth Hull Chatlien said...

That is a lovely capturing of a moment of intense presence.

Choralgrrl said...

Oh, that's just lovely. :-)

Thanks for taking me away from my desk and putting me in the hammock in my back yard for a minute.

Congrats to you, too!

Anonymous said...

This is just wonderful.

You are blessed.

Truely!

Jan said...

Thank you for coming to visit me; I'm glad we share eclectic strains of faith together! Your poem is beautiful. Seeing it and the painting below show what a talented woman you are! I hope we'll keep on visiting each other and grow to know each other better.