Noelle Last-Name Poet Blank verse

A Place to Hear The Silence

Who thought it would come to this?
I can’t live in the computer space but I know within it there’s quiet. 
I almost think here.
I kind of like that it can’t really be pulled apart and seep noise if I can just keep my volume down 
That is becoming more simpler as I age.
Just a place to keep my ears from being visible to my foe, 
That makes them crazy
They still work as hard to be better at it 
Well that thing 
I don’t study computers much 
They just took up space in the dark for so many years.

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Beata Agustin September 7, 2026 at 6:44 AM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Alison A Smith September 4, 2026 at 8:32 PM This is a compelling, contemporary take on blank verse, using its looseness to mirror thought moving through anxiety rather than resolving neatly. The computer-space imagery feels both strange and recognisable: a private, dim refuge where silence becomes protection, while the hesitant phrasing gives the poem an authentic, vulnerable pulse.