Ever Towards Silence

By Francis Knoll

In this new collection of poetry, author Francis Knoll examines our world of appearances and inevitable death, considering its many contradictions and failings with a will to extract meaningful existence.

Featuring colorful imagery that focuses on the natural world, these poems approach the problems and frailty of human life with a sense of destiny and higher purpose. Knoll explores time, mortality, and emotion, looking deeply at the inner attitudes needed to transform or circumvent our difficulties while moving toward a wordless state of being—an inner silence—and a separate spiritual existence. These verses invite you to consider your place in time and delve into the mysteries of life.

Flame

Flame eternal without substance
From matter to aether
Holding, writhing, wanting all,
Consuming, breathing, but neither
Dying nor living and all, all powerful;
Yet delicate as the petals of ancient flowers
Dug up from graves to be seen now
And at this very hour.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Jun 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483432410

Francis Knoll

Francis Knoll has spent his life in the pursuit of the inner depth of poetry, music, and life. He holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego, in piano, music theory, and composition, and he has worked as a computer systems architect, performing artist, and poet. He lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains with the company of his friends and two dogs Kuki and Clarita.

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Ever

Towards

Silence

FRANCIS KNOLL

Copyright © 2015 FRANCIS KNOLL.

Image The Young Poet by Leopoldo Duranona.

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-3242-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-3243-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-3241-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015908576

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 6/23/2015

Table of Contents

Forever Waiting

I Watch While I Wait

Look Now Towards That World Quickly Arising

Hints of Annihilation and Rebirth

When Autumn Comes

Shifting Shadows

The East Wind

Evanesence

The Visitation

Scenes Towards Silence

The Idyllic Moment

Separation from Loss

The Pianist Leaves

Friends Together

Time Ends

Mystic Waltz

At Winter’s Edge

Grateful at Winter’s Edge

To Vestigial Life

The Shadow of my Lamp

Shadows of Error

In the Shadow of Error

Life’s Dark Force

Meditation on the