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Tinnitus - A Raging Discourse On Loud

the whole world is happening at the same time every conversation, every bird call, every lion roar every everything bunched up to oneness in my head I carry the white noise of distance wherever I go I am an out of tune radio coursing through debris and tin whistle high notes playing one key in harmony that is my head, that is my thunderstorm in stereo imagine a life having to speak over an orchestra but there is a beauty and stability to hearing all the insects of the world crawling along simultaneously with every wave and fish fuzz in water wait, I think I can hear the flowers growing the leaves falling, the sand rearranging on every beach though if it can happen a little less loudly so it doesn’t fill my every second, that would be ok now, and it has taken sleeplessness, I am privy to galactic secrets, the gods are chattering all at once so I’m none the wiser for the cacophony just full of loud

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Date: 9/4/2024 1:54:00 AM
Powerful write! So much that i feel sometimes too and i cant help but fee the depth of “ I carry the white noise of distance wherever I go I am an out of tune radio coursing through debris” that hits home for me! And Is powerful! From metaphors to imagery to the way youv as always played around with words here is impeccable! The depth of emotions !!! Soul stirring! So well described! A fave this is
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Clive Culverhouse
Date: 9/4/2024 2:19:00 AM
Thanks for the fave, I'm really grateful for your support and kind uplifting words IE
Date: 9/3/2024 1:45:00 AM
Sorry to hear that you have this condition Clive, I'd often read of rock stars having it on account of being exposed to loud music. I hope you find peace. Tom
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Clive Culverhouse
Date: 9/3/2024 1:51:00 AM
Thanks Tom, but don't be sorry, it's something I use to help me relax, taken a lot of practice but I don't think I can be without it now, don't get me wrong it's not all good, I struggle to hear what I'm supposed to be hearing sometimes but like I say in the poem, I can now hear the flowers growing, haha
Date: 9/3/2024 1:31:00 AM
This is quite exciting! It seems tinnitus has been gifted to the wrong crowd until it found you :) I love the idea that it's all there to be tuned into (if only that were possible). With imagination, oh the places you can go :)
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Clive Culverhouse
Date: 9/3/2024 1:37:00 AM
Oh the years I spent writhing in an agony of this incessantly debilitating noise but then an epiphany and yes I saw it as a gift. I now sleep much easier having my own built-in Tibetan singing bowl, I use it as a tool and now see a beauty, takes some doing, but your comment is spot on with what I was hoping to get across.

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