NaPoWriMo #24 and I’ve just received an acceptance for one of my poems – ‘The Cloakroom of my Childhood’. I will add a link to it on my ‘About’ page in due course.
Today’s prompt at Read Write Poem is noise (or silence).
Silence
In my room
a fan whirrs
my computer clicks
and it sounds as though
I’ve put a sea shell
to my ear.
Outside
I hear
the hum of a tractor
the drone of an aeroplane
as it rises to a crescendo
and then diminishes
car wheels screech
on the tarmac.
In the garden
my cat meows to be let in.
The busyness of birds
in their aerial arena
hits me like a wall
of sound.
In my head
conversations
with people
real and imagined
what my kids are doing
what I need to do
what is urgent
what can wait
who is coming
who is going
a re-draft of
a short story
or an idea
for a poem
Is there such a thing as silence?
April 24, 2009 at 12:23 pm
To rephrase the old conundrum, it made me wonder whether if there was no one there to hear it, could a silence exist? Fine post.
April 24, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Can anything exist without someone there…I sometimes try to imagine a universe with no one in it. Without a figure there’s no ground…or is it the other way round?
April 24, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Nice selection of sounds in here and yes good question at the end…
April 24, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Can we live in absolute silence? I don’t think so.
Wonderfully written.
moon eats sugar puffs
April 24, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Great sound images. It’s the conversations in the head that I struggle with most. They’re a noisy bunch. Congratulations on having a poem accepted. I look forward to reading it.
April 24, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Congratulations on the acceptance of your poem!
Interesting question about silence. It’s a nothingness, and there is no such thing as nothing … ha, you’ve made me think
April 25, 2009 at 3:23 am
nicely done….silence…so intereesting…full of emptiness yet so full
May 8, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Good take on silence.
The day we would be able to hear silence,we wud be divine:)
~Harsha
June 14, 2009 at 12:11 am
No for me there isn’t! I enjoyed this work very much Carole. It spoke volumes…Well done!
June 14, 2009 at 12:12 am
that should read: NOT for me, there isn’t.
PS: I forgot to mention previously, I have a new monthly meme happening over at MPP. Perhaps you’ll want to join in. Just started this month.
August 23, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Nice sensory images! Enjoyed this poem! If you ever find an answer to the silence question, please let me know, so I can inform the ever-chattering voices in my head.