Short Tone Deaf Poems

William Butler Yeats
respected as one of the greats Awarded
Awarded a Nobel prize
being tone deaf  is a surprise...

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Second Lady, Karen Pence
Surely lacks all common sense
  Teaching at a private Christian school
  She's just so tone-deaf; it's so un-cool...

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Hugh Hefner, also known as 'Hef'
To most females was quite tone-deaf
  He recast grown women as fawning bunnies
  Who drooled over his scantily-clad wad of money...

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A tone-deaf woman in Tucumcari 
made a wish to sing like a canary
Her perpetual sadness
has now turned to gladness
It’s just eat, tweet and be merry!

2/12/22...

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Stan wants to be an Entertainer, however he's tone deaf and has two left feet
















10-9-16
Contest: Funny One Liner
Sponsor: Silent One...

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Happy nuthatch taps
Drumming his special rhythm
On my dogwood tree
Robin provides melody
Tone deaf bluejay acts annoyed

written June 19, 2021...

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TONE DEAF


Blind men searching for a silent sound
amid the cacophonic ruins
of solitude’s deafness.


John G. Lawless
8/7/2014
For PD’s contest
Any poem under 5 lines #1...

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The carol singers at my door,
I greeted them with tone deaf song,
My hand outstretched, they shuffled off:
I didn’t get a quid – what’s wrong?

Do you hear what I hear? For Kim’s Carolling contest...

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mother did not mind
a kind beauty of passion
and then there was me

singer of night songs
tone deaf to all but to me
the randy cat howls

mated wife, mother
baker of red cherry pies
one in the oven...

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This is an age-old complaint,
About singers who ain't such saints,
Younger music sounds like trash,
Our eardrums they do bash,
What makes them so tone deaf,'
Try a new career, catch your breath!...

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An ancient tone-deaf vicar named Fred
His parishioners he loved to wed
When he starts to sing
The bells they would ring…
For his voice would awaken the dead!

Jan Allison
7th April 2016...

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tone-deaf 
unintelligible 
mumblings 
escape into the air
like nails spreading 
across a chalkboard 
causing confused 
expressions to spread 
across the faces of those 
around 
break out in an all out
two left footed choreography 
the look at me look at me 
show has begun...

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tone deaf &
hoping for a break
s/he lifts up their glass &
after dedicating this song s/he’s about to sing
to said celebrated person of the
evening,
s/he belts into a rendition of
something that won’t be recognized 
for another 5 years of
round the clock 
study @
the Center for Neuroacoustic Research....

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Sound now
play loud
play soft 
low key 
high key 
please me 
shock me
eyes cry
laugh loud
sing out
tune mad
tone deaf
don't care 
scream shout
sharp soft
sound off
sound on 
run round
up down
dance round
great time
crowd cheer
shout more
thank you
Nick Cave 


contest entry image one piano keys...

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The chosen
tone deaf
to their fortune

Musicians
their heads
in the sand

The roadies
eat pizza
still frozen

While Angels
play bass
in the band

Indulgence
the pick 
on their fretboard 

Entranced
by the lure
of the bong

Benighted
the riffs
play without them

Not going
or coming
— just gone

(The New Room: March, 2024) 
...

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Listen to poem:

Constant denigration
wears you down
you feel so small
as your efforts are
downgraded with cast-off scoffs.
Your pearls bedraggled,
lack lustre,
displayed dimmed and dulled,
squelched by doubt,
smeared in fear.
Duet performance discordant 
sung in disharmony
with lead player out of tune,
tone-deaf.
Belittled, you be,
and bedraggled becomes you....

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One sunny afternoon amid a snowstorm 
appeared a lovely rainbow.

A canary on a limb chirped a sweet tune, 
but he had no voice and was tone-deaf.

The small blind hound below witnessed 
the whole show.

If you doubt the story, call up the deaf 
mouse that’s studying to be a chef.








09/07/2021
Contest:Nonsense Rhyme
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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MOONLIGHT   CONCERT



Moonlight’s song is borrowed, trite. 

Unless her echo is lent tune bright 
From a golden-voiced  source,
Her own cadence is coarse:
It  has no life of its own.

Hear the moon, on stage alone 
In  black magnificence.   Her rule
Is of an empty kingdom cool,
With tone-deaf somnolence - unless
Daylight’s king of harmony bless
Her with warm tones of delight :
In songs that wake the night....

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"Anything i can do, you could do better!" 
I'm different.  I like my sushi well done.
"Sure you're right!...Who cares?"
I'm as wise as a potato chip.
Is it illegal to leave a night-light on in the day?
"If music be the food of love...I'm tone deaf."
So what? I guess my self-confidence made me inferior.
I hired an interior decorator for my refrigerator.
I spend my time figuring out how to spend my time!!

good day , Carol.......

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I'm stuck in a maze… but I see a way out
I'm in quicksand, but I can somehow breathe

I'm blind, but I have twenty, twenty vision
I'm starving but I have enough food

I'm full of hate, but I love everybody
I'm trapped inside my mind but I'm free

I'm an opera singer but I'm tone deaf
I'm a fast runner , but I didn't pass go

Why do I feel this way in the midst of chaos?
Because a positive attitude changes reality




Alexis Y.
5-05-19...

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stuck inside these four walls
i pretend to be tone deaf
stubbornly manage to ignore
the incessant dull screams
echoing from deep within
i recognize my muse trapped
crying for freedom of expression
the artist bound and ligatured
itching to be let out of confines
craving to be set free to thrash about
if i ever get out of here
splash some colors wild and loose
drawing free curves and swirls
on canvas of every shape and size



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 9, 2019...

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