Long Hard of hearing Poems

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Premium Member Fruit Loops tries to Befriend Cheerios

Cheerios got haughty when she saw who had arrived.
Those stupid Fruit Loops will not keep anyone alive.
She whispered to her neighbor but no one whispered back.
That’s when she noticed she is on the end of the cereal track.

Fruit Loops tried to make conversation, but Cheerios is stuck up.
Keeping her coupons so high, they could not come down with a pup.
Fruit Loops thought she was hard of hearing and tried harder now.
Cheerios stuck wax in her ears, she felt no kinship or wow.

Don’t even try it another box of Fruit Loops said to the new box.
She has always been haughty, she thinks she’s a chic fox.
Fruit Loops did not have to worry for long, she was soon gone.
Taken off the shelf by a boy and his daddy and mom.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Mom

Working in a bookstore my eyes gaze out on a million words that captivate and endear…but nothing quite compares with one word I often hear.

Yes I hear the word Mom many times from the counter on which I’m leaning…and every time I hear it…it seem to have a different meaning… 

I hear the word Mom over and over each and every day and I find myself marveling how it can be said in so many different ways.

“Mommy, they have a Christmas tree! There’s an elf on the shelf, Mommy…look!”
“Mommy can you buy me this pack of crayons…Mommy I just have to have this book!”

“No you can’t buy that book it has too many words you will not understand.  Come on… we’re going to the Children’s section…hold on to mommy’s hand.”

A phone rings: “Hi Mom.  Yes I’m in the bookstore.  I’ll come see you when I’m through. Yes Mom, okay Mom, Yes Mom, Yes Mom, yes Mom…Yes Mom…I love you too.”

“Mom you look a little tired”. Her daughter pats her on the back and smiles. 
“I’m going to find us both a book. Why don’t you sit here for a while.”

“MOM HE ASKED YOU IF YOU WANT A RECEIPT!  The daughter yells but it’s a yell I find endearing as she looks at me she smiles and says. “My mom’s a little hard of hearing.”

A mom comes in with her little daughter in tow…her daughter’s crying, “She’s lost her favorite Teddy Bear. 
“She’s not sure when she lost it.” Her Mom said, “we’ve been looking everywhere.”

“She remembers looking at a book in your bookstore, she thinks her Teddy might be behind it”
“Thank you Mommy.” The little girl says as we search the store…and find it!”

A woman picks a book off the shelf and as she does she wipes away a tear
“Mom would have loved this book she whispers to herself…I sure wish she was here.”

What a wonderful little word is MOM…
for no matter how we convey it...
It’s meaning changes completely
simply…
by the way we happen to say it.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Phoenix the Dawg

Phoenix the dawg

There in my yard is a dawg name 
phoenix
One stubborn black *****
Easily identified by her signature hind 
limp
Now, is not that she's without redeeming qualities
But that dawg no matter how you call har 
she seems hard of hearing
While it well known that's a choice she is making
Cause the merest sound har ear perk,
she jump up and start barking
Phoenix the real mix I love to say 
But jah know, dis dawg personify 
the adjective play
I leave her sometimes under a mango 
tree loosely chain 
Where her kennel is to cover her when 
it rain
A piece of work she is even when she is 
on rein 
Cause har mouth nuh cry quit, she get wey under mi van already and bite the wiring to 
total disarray
Yet, phoenix is a unique dawg, 
black as midnight with a face like a
happy smile....wg
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Strange Definitions

DECADENT = ten teeth

CONFUSION = against melting with intensity

DEDICATION = a vacation in the afterlife

PURPOSE = Kitten posing while purring

INFORMATION = soldiers on parade

DELETED = Getting rid of Ted

FEATURED = An adventure about walking barefoot

SYLLABLE = Funny antics of a bull

CLASSICAL = A student eating a popsicle in class

MORNING = A lot more ning

PREVENTING = Before letting out air

PERPETUATE = Average for each pet you ate

ASSOCIATED = Your bum has social skills

BEAUTIFUL = Beauty filled to the top

REPRESENTED = Announce Ted is present again

PARTICIPATE = Average part in your hair

CONSISTING = Against your sister's hurtful remarks

WEAPONS = Small chess pieces

DEPARTMENT = Leaving your apartment

SENTENCE = Uptight delivery

PUBLISHING = Getting drunk in a bar

THOUSAND = Your beach

CANTALOUPE = Unable to run away and get married

IMPORTANCE = Buying ants from another country

DEFINITIONS = Hard of hearing finitions

EXPECTED = Ted who used to be hen pecked

GOVERNMENT = Vote for Vern election ad

POPULAR = Dad's favourite pew at church



© Jack Ellison 2014
Form: Narrative

Premium Member The Open Road

I got my drivers license!!!!

Now, excitement lies an easy walk from boredom. 
The second school ends, I reach for the keys, 
like a seedling stalk turns to the sun.
I’m soaking in this new freedom with litmus thirst.

What a spell - “combine gravel and motors for miracles,” 
I say, in my best crackly witches voice. 

True, my mom keeps turning the music down, 
someone has to chaperone - at first 
- aren’t old people supposed to be hard of hearing?

I'm anfractuous in my approach to driving goals. 
“What are you laughing at,” My mom asks.
“Nothing.” I answer, confused. 
Was I laughing??


Premium Member Bondi-An Attraction Retraction collab

Be mine, oh please, love my heart, soul and gut
Your meanness is sexy, my darling ____
Oh, my dear AG
Turn your fury on me
Scream insults at me as I swat your _____
                                                               by Robert Gorelick


Rants and raves at congress, she’s domineering
                                                 Attorney General’s reputation smearing                                      
Unlike humble Ghandi  
She's Mean-Girl Bondi
A maniac, hard-hearted and hard-of-hearing
                                                                by I Am Anaya


Happy Valentine's Day!
2/14/26
Form: Limerick

Mere Minutes Into May Sixth 2019

Mere Minutes Into May Sixth, 2019

Heron entombed within b44 man cave
at Highland Manor Apartments sitting
in catbird seat after shower and shave
attuned to silence permeating airwave
wondering what comprises silence music

to these keenly attuned ears as agave
tastes sweet on tongue curious just now
if those hard of hearing or deaf crave
distinct absence, albeit low toned hum,
sans various appliances buzzing this knave,

who relishes solitude and absolute quiet
though this facility, most appeal aye rave
constitutes very minimal cost courtesy
rental assistance, which provides us to save,
(that plural includes missus) feels a slave

hidebound to maintain tidiness, lest we
find ourselves homeless prospect I stave
off (just barely), analogous keeping wild
animal at bay, though grim prospect suave,
and debonair "FAKE" facade I don trumpet

merely self employed to distract grim fate,
which loomed large months few months gone
necessitated third automotive, repair spate
chilly linkedin (racking ma pinion), asper our
2009 Hyundai Sonata (sedan) original parts

(battery included) amazingly last years behave
ving admirably despite slew of upkeep sending
checking account into intensive care, a grave
situation kickstarting precarious mental health
(amazing how being penniless - dirt poor) brave

driver cannot withstand blistering maintenance
costs sustaining car, more money versus engrave
van tombstone, and more painful experiencing
a negative checking account balance, thus fave

veering disliking existential hardship, where entrenched
panic attacks (despite pharmaceutical magic) death gave
enticing option, cuz quotidian struggle undermines
affinity to enjoy life, liberty, blah blah to thrave.

Premium Member 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 although voiceovers 
benefit the blind and vision impaired.
Historically dubbing was employed 
by fascist governments to advance
the nationalist agenda. In our own time 
the tendency to consider dubbers dumb
implies reading’s the indispensable skill. 
My wife reads her mail while watching movies 
so she prefers dubs. I admire her mastery
of two idioms simultaneously
but my limited bandwidth favors subs.
Form: Verse

Upon the Firmament of Hindsight

No rocket surgeon,
     nor brain scientist called upon
but only Rudolf the red nose reindeer
solicited as psychological mentor
yes...undoubtedly countless
     decades removed since *****  
(not very gay at all!)
     bodily changing phenomena

     from thine angst riddled
     biological metamorphosis allows me to peer
with greater theft of mine precious youth stolen,
     via piercing overbear
ring mailer daemons,
     when mine tender age did near

cusp whence onset of puberty
     clapped development tight as if by
     a doppelganger mutineer
warp and weft of mine lifetime tapestry
     mine acute perception doth lear
as threads got tightly woven
     into mine casual knitwear

though pubescent phase
     wrought with oppressive foresight
     interwoven with jeer
ring bullying hmm...maybe thine ability
     to distill self actualization
     extant among interlinear
teenage stage viewable

     during my youthful days, but clouded over asper
     mine more vivid perspective here
from this present moment
     ha...amusing insight from present perch
     devoid of adolescent glare
sire re: brill grade

     do lobes gleam freer,
now with insight aye ear
rate at such pitch 'ere
perfect hindsight aye declare,
yet as a much younger self
     when I hapt to be a boy, acuity seemed oblivious
     to perceive via sight and sound

what social cues visceral, (visual,
     and audiological) seems crystal clear
revisiting non verbal
     awkward teenage mutant
     ninja turtle memories, that now deafeningly blare
at the threshold of ear 
     splitting decibels, how hard of hearing human
     (nada so) subtle in retrospect, I am aware
interpersonal nuances clear as the tune
     Doris Day Que será, será
     did voice, a catchy air.

Upon Reading a Psalm

“Lord, mine enemies multiply,
bootlicks grow brazen.
Put thy boot upon their necks.
curse all no-nodding nay-sayers.

Silence.

David:
“The Lord scoffs at them, rebukes them in His anger.”

Silence.

“Answer me when I call You my righteous God.”

A Voice:

Read me a sweeter psalm David,
write Me upon the shivering hide of a newborn cur.
Blow your blues out of your trumpeting mouth.
The hard of hearing call me.: Lord, Lord, Lord!
Their ears are sounding boards for the clacking
of zealous tongues.

You I shall make wise upon an appointed time
and you shall not know
your left hand from your right,
nor will you see friend or foe before you.

Then when you are dumbstruck and as compliant.
as sweet meadow grass
I will raise you up from out of this mirage
of you,
until you are above the image of any me or I.

The one breath of the Father and the son
will be aware of none other. but be a beckoning,
a psalm for all those yet floundering.
within a mind-miasma.

There is a Light,
a light seen only by that Light itself.

Now David, go light a small candle,
place it into a closeted niche of being,
praise the silence of that flame
until 'times dream' snuffs itself entirely out.

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