Short Deafened Poems

Deafened by my silent screams...helpless...I feel Betrayed....

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your mouth is moving
with no words coming out
lies have deafened me
lies have muted you...

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blinded by glass shards
         deafened by almighty blast
           ~ dumb by gag orders


By
David Kavanagh...

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The ending in sight,
 —beginning so near

What’s loosened now tight,
 —those deafened to hear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Hands forcefully covering my ears
As my eyes tighten in response
For in this four walled world
Where no windows and doors reside
I am in pain
And deafened by the silence...

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the words fell silent
on deafened ears
no one to listen
no one to tell
quietly screaming
wanting to be heard
missing their mark
in an angry world
quelling anger
misunderstood...

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Break free, a cloudless seam
silent screams, repeat defeat
deafened to a darkened end
pulses penetrate, relentless
night hits harder and harder
but alone I shan't be, 
alone I can't be, still...

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Blindness seeing vision

Tasteless flavorful bitten

Deafened crackling sound

Deathly hearts pound

Touch less feeling miss

Breathless calm kiss

Scentless perfumed skin

Soulless spirit full within...

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You talk, but all I hear is you have nothing to say.
I'm just trying to make myself into a person I don't hate.
Fumbling for a character when all the world's a stage.
Shrieking at an audience deafened by cliches....

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I write for the diamonds,
all quartz to be damned

The populace deafened,
and jaded demand

That anything selfish,
their wills to be pawned

My jewels though not many
—sparkle beyond

(The New Room: February, 2021)...

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Engage

Go back to basic
conversation calm and cool.
No need for backchat.


Enrage

Hurt heart hot with rage-
Deafened encapsulation.
Left without true peace.


28/10/2018:  "A time for silence and a time to speak..."...

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god coughed
& deafened
thousands
sorry he said
but by then
it was too
late
many shook
radios
slapped
the sides of
t.v. sets
thinking the
fault was
mechanical
none were
prepared for
the sneeze
of extinction
that
followed...

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The Piper of destiny
  calls from the unknown

Without lyre or harp, 
  his truth so intoned  

All sirens left deafened,
  tumbling over themselves

As a choir of Angels
  —from his flute are bespelled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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Hollow words have beauty
Hollow words are dead
Life has had no meaning
With hollow words' Godhead

So speak your lies
So scream in tongues
Your hollow cries
Are not enough
The world will turn a deafened ear
The world will turn a deadened fear...

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Our ugly side, anger and greed
Game of one-upmanship
Endless craving beyond our need
Gods love not our flagship

At all costs need to win
Deafened by ego din 
Delusion begets sin

Ego lust ride
Our ugly side

22-August-2021
Quietus...

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when your absent
life bends to madness
everyone around me
is completely unaware
of the silent scream within me
trying to purge itself
out of it's confinement 
if there was such a doorway
to enter my body
all those people who entered
would be deafened
by the scream...

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MUSIC


Raucus rock concert  -
Five shrieking dervishes  
On stage.
Five thousand shieking dervishes 
In audience. 
Brought home daughter
Hoarse and deafened.
Overcrowded cacophony.
 
Me, tea, bed and sleepy radio.
Simon lyrics make sense.
Sublime Garfunkel harmony....

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Hungered yearning for justice;
Crumbling statues with deafened ears,
Teardrops eroding mighty mountains,
As silt gathers year by year;
The crimes of gluttonous heroes  
Told in each layer of collected memory,
Let one be mixed with rust,
Of those shackles from which
We were freed....

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The Blood is still fresh
Flowing over the mirror, sink and flower vase
His hand is still clenched into the fist, wounded
The walls have deafened, blinded by his sudden flame.

Those reflections are still  wondering
Whom had he met,  just before the break?

Or he had seen together all of them....

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Occasionally right,
However, mostly wrong
Like fraudulent daylight,
Tall tales which suffer long
That frequent deafened ears,
So demonstrates belief.
Anticipating fears
May offer some relief.
While filtering the smoke
Of life's insanity,
The gasping children choke.
From predators prey flea....

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An elderly television
speaks to her
in a deafened condominium.

Curtains billow
turning daylight on and off.

Sometimes she looks 
in her mind, 
often an old movie is playing.
She sees her late husband
dancing with Ginger Rogers.

She goes to the bathroom,
puts in her teeth, wanting to look 
her very best....

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I pray for peace around the world
Each day on bended knee
So why does such a prayer of peace
Go unanswered, answer me
Its not that God doesn’t hear the prayer
He wants the same you see
God prays for peace around the world
Each day on bended knee
But his prayers remain unanswered
For mankind is deafened to his plea...

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Here I am

On the brink of greatness

Unable to take the first step

Here I am

Standing on the shoulders of giants

A legacy passed on by baton

Here I am

Anxious to hear the starters gun

Deafened instead by the silence

Here I am

A race of slave workers

Who built an empire

Here I am

Climbing out that valley

To that mountain top...

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softly she
speaks and
i being older 
deafened by too
much Berlioz on level
eleven ask for forgiveness

she shuts
up but using
hand gestures
and finger figures
i seem to sum it up
about a three legged man

as the
rest goes
blank as instead
i try to read her toes
but they are plump and
sluggish my wish i sign i love

you...

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And life I know we experience daily 
Some painted on screens,
some on our sheets 
And some are rainbows painted in the sky 
Yet painted are mine in bold visible prints
Cold teary eyes 
Swollen broken hearts 
and slaps of lies that deafened my ears 
And life I know we experience daily 
Has left on me nothing more but scars...

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