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☾ Welcome to the inner workings of my mind it's dark inside, but sometimes there's light.
Blacksounds
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Poems

Mateuš Conrad  Apr 2021
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Mateuš Conrad Apr 2021
you have caught up to my drift, dear unicorn... i've been elsewhere the past few days... perhaps i drank too much... perhaps... but then cycling into central London feels surreal every time things fall off from the everyday in the vicinity of Bow, Stratford and Mile End... and i enter... tourist brick-on-bricks... it's surreal that... once upon a time the whole affair of taking a bus, the tube... while cycling to those desired destinations is... well... surreal... you can't even begin to fathom how much i appreciate this little dialectical corner we have started... for ourselves... how little we know of each other yet still pursue... you know... i wanted to write something before i wrote my little tirade... oral traditions... passing on the tongue... i was going to suggest: not everyone can be a Julien Sorel... or... hafiz... my scatter brain also suggested noting a need to denounce onomatopoeia: should we even allow encoding a woof or a meow... unless it's a noun denotation of... what a dog / cat does when prescribing us with seeking attention? a wolf doesn't woof woof: it howls... a lion doesn't meow... i could "understand" barking... then again: what's not to understand? true: i have those drowning thoughts... none of them are concerns for moral ought-i-have(?) though... then again... being impregnated with a gravity that allows me to stand: firm-rooted... and still persist in falling...if we only have sounds: touch wood... who's: one of those knock-knock: who's there, lineage of joke-chokes... i figured... no one remembers how certain places give off this particular whiff... this "accent"... like Barkingside still has a whiff of old Jewish ladies... Ilford is lost from having any Hebrew influence... the Jewish flight is in plain sight... how the synagogue on Coventry St. was dismantled... yet here i am: still... cycling through little Bengal...i hope i'm not too imposing giving both of us coordinates that we are engaged in a dialectic... cult-convincing fabric: how crude mere sounds... ą: is? you said you love sounds... what's ą? i'll be surprised whether your defence of sounds allows you to make this phonetic encoding resound... it's somewhere lodged between a: moan & an oh...Ą... in defence of sounds... so when written? not much... to look at? almost cubist takes on the aesthetic of spelling... no? hell... that's not even cubist... it's dada... do people still read newspapers? i was going to stash this reply until tomorrow having reread it sober... but then again i like taking the most *******-whipping sort of chances out of good-luck-stupidity because: tomorrow i'll be... like i am today come 12am: sooner dead than living in my prime... of course i love your poem... the superiority of sounds... i am a most probably a male and as a stereotypical male i find closure in using my eyes to their fulll potential... your sounds look b'ah b'ah as words... you can't exactly call them aesthetically appealing? perhaps if they were written in braille... or in katakana... let's see.. well... i can't conjoin two consonants together... there's this XOXO rule in speaking ***., while only N is allowed free-reign and an almost unique status... バ (ba): but here's laughter, i suppose laughter is ha, ha... ha ha, ha (ハ)... you tell me sounds are superior: i abhor rap... how freely sounds trickle forth from the fountain of rap... nonsense at the end of the spectrum of: the sound a door performs when not propaerly oiled: creaking... but i'm too much of a visual creature... i like to see what will prompt me: almost like a thespian... how else, would you ever convene to come together with all resourcefulness, in being so convincing... without an otherwise worth of: predictable script? i like seeing what i'll say... are sounds superior because... they are? undecipherable? close  approximates... there is not infinity of sounds that can't be congested into an encoding... to allow a free-roaming of the cinema of memory to take fold... to be allowed...  ha is a definite article in hebrew: so... depicting laughter in hebrew is like writing: thethethethe... point? the spaniards have it just as bad: jajaja... a pronoun to some: a yes to others... laughter is hardly a mere sound... it's a ****** expression to boot... no?  you know why you're so adamantly in my focus? after this coleslaw of verbiage... i've just spewed... you will return without much: "concern"... after all... you won't be reading a spew... a ****-piece of... tabloid opinion-pressuring... this is a self-critical scoop of observation, though: i know i can write *******-riddled amnesiac squat too... oh look... it TAP... became... TAN... タン... we'd be in on pinched mongol *****... ******* parties and white women ***** guilt reprise... no? gloat as i might: i've heard that... come the 2nd / 3rd generation of interracial breeding? the original "sin" is diluted... that i am drunk and writing this... but... best this tired, old soak... of... ripe... raw. onion... it's not like the Russians would mind... mind you: i once dated a Russian girl who... swear to god... thought it was of being a lesser social class if one donned a suntan... you were a serf for having a suntan... that's the whole lot of 'er... to have this onion turn copper turn auburn... no... suntans were not aligned with her thinking of being of the tsarist Russia.... she also adored petting spiders... and serpents... i was more into... foxes... deer... cats....herding heaps of dung: because: there's no better whiff of air than the scent of a refreshing attire of horseshit, in the morning... now... i've written this much... your "superiority" of sounds still stands... but.. on what? write me smash smash... write me Ao (/) アオ blue... sky then 空 (ソラ).... how feeble sounds are... when staged in the theatre of lettering...  you know how pointless a mandarin sounds? as pointless as... until... the point of revealing his phonetic encoding technique... a sound is a sound is perhaps an echo... i'll end there: i don't need to **** further.
Annamaria Gagno Nov 2012
Ringing the sounds
to what we hear
silent we sleep
when do the bells ring

not know when
she'll ring it in time

silent she sleeps
in her mothers
still inside

not know when
she'll blow the sound
ringing the tears

she''ll sound the voice
when it's time

we will all know

far far away
knowing the sounds of Glory
a mother far in distance

away from her daughter
knowing she is surrounded
by
family

knowing her own mother
is in distance

no tears to hear
no sounds of joy

only a mother would know
times where there
when she heard
her own children
cry with bliss

sounds of baby
about to be born
she is the Glory

ringing the sounds
special person not yet to be born
knowing far away
in distance

a grandmother
who's knows all to well
when child is born

a Blessing is about to start
a birthday wish to all
when the grand
entering
of a
baby girl

she'll in time
how Bless she is

surround by all
surround by love

far far away
knowing someone
will not be there

first time to be
a grandmother wish

to be their for her daughter
when she is about to have
her own
baby girl
a daughter of her own

to cherish the time
life begins
they day she is born

my little girl
how much I miss
grandmother sends

the love of joy
she knows the sounds

a cry
of harmony
about to start

no stopping there
it will every day bliss
sounds of singing
by little girl
to be born

love of life
how life begins

to a granddaughter

far far in distance
no matter where you are

grandmother knows
when you sleep at night

waking the sounds
of your tiny
little voice

your mother to be
will know
how life starts
when you cry for a reason
she'll know when
to wake up

love by a mothers arm
safe as you are

little girl
your grandmas little Angel
no matter how far far you are

grandma would know
by singing the tunes

a cry for a moment
is knowing
how far you came

months after months
your mother walk the miles
to have you here

heaven above
looking down
the earth will be yours

grandma welcomes you
with sound of her voice
by saying
sweet little one
cry out loud
you made the grand entering
by singing
the love
everyone been waiting for
month after month

ringing the harmony
the sounds we want to hear
is knowing your
alive and well

to a proud grandmother to be