Hard Of Hearing Poems - Poems about Hard Of Hearing

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If, like me, you’ve been retired 
for some time now, and your mailbox, 
like mine, has become the repository 

of all sorts of health advertisements –
vitamins, medicines, ointments, organ...

Subs v Dubs

...In the debate between dubbing and subbing 
I side with subs to savor the original 
mellifluous French, Tamil, Korean, Italian...
Reading the subtitles assists the deaf 
and hard of hearing althou...

Prevailing winds

...There are days we live only for others
and happy to share in ours, 
words of devotion
even scars. 

Though I never presumed to know 
or even understand..
only pretend.

But this time's not t...

a cow at the table

...“There’s a cow at the table,” I whispered, not wanting to be rude.
It’s horns curled like question marks, which seemed quite Apropos
Now that I’ve been to college, I can tell you, there’s a lot tha...

Prism of the Left Eye

...Twin eyes, twin perspectives
Pick your poison; they're both too hard to explain
The cloudy sphere raining down once again
While it's earthen brother quakes uncontrollably

Ten years passed as te...

Once Again

...Once more, I am thinking about writing -
coils are uncoiling,
snakes study the intricate anatomy
of legs and next steps.

My audience of one
must be propped up as if yet still alive,
geriatric...

A Lonely-Child Stranger Dancing Near The River

...{"I want to be at arm's length of people because I have met you. You reflect on what I believe and disbelieve. 
You introduce me to a sacred hollow shallow cage you call your childhood home. 
Howev...

cake on her head

...She promenaded in wearing a cake on her head
This made us all laugh except dour uncle Ted
Happy birthday she sang in a high soprano voice
What did she say? Asked hard-of-hearing old Royce.

With...

Death for Dummies by a Dummy

..."We come into the world alone and we die alone." ~ Diogenes

What was that, Diogenes?
Speak a bit louder if you please.
I'm old and hard of hearing,
and I fear my death is nearing.

Well, anyw...

Respect is the only thing that will

...Without respect it is hard to find peace,
Without respect Love may be one sided,
Without respect we tend to become hard of hearing,
Without respect opportunities to grow are limited,
Without resp...

the parrot

...The Parrot

The bird in the cage has featherless wings folded
to the naked body like squeaking scissors 
I'm 89 today let, me out of this bloody cage!
Its owner is hard of hearing, is the widow ...

Mess

...I will put you in myself -
to rummage,
to find,
to separate the jumbled together,
all the haphazardly stored,
all the neglected,
all the rejected and abandoned.
Salvage what you may
leave the...

To You For Me

...I wish you could understand my pain. The crack you put in my foundation. The wing you clipped from this earth angel. The crying is so loud in my heart, my head, it hurts. Before we were, I was healin...

In Sizzling Soup

...They spent many happy years of married life,
hard of hearing he heard the shout of his wife.
She once told buy potato,
he bought bagful tomato,
found himself sunk in the sizzling soup of ...

Abuelito

...Abuelito
The name that rang like bells throughout my home
Like the song of cumbia and regeton that your body will dance to
As you would call out “mija, ven aqui”
And you would take my hands and e...

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