I care not for your daily tales,
The sound passes through my worn ears
Like wind through tattered sails,
Like holes in a fishing net
The words pass through,
Escaping the sounds
The dull hums of you.
Drown me over board,
Cast me no line,
I’ll forget your words in the sands,
Of my sinking time.
I empty my lungs and sink into the black crush,
Don’t pull me back to your vomit of words
Your tedious gush.
I care not for your inverted commas acceptable version of events,
No smile will break my cheeks
My dead pan face
Frozen in place,
Lost in sand grain stars
And all their endless space.
Suck me into a black hole,
Void of interest I feel only darkness towards your insipid matters,
You puncture my mind with your worm hole drawl,
As you grind out your mouth soil
At slowest grinding crawl.
I care not for your watered down yarns,
The slow turns of your materialistic wheel
Spun by your constant uninspiring spiel,
Turn the wheel to release the noose drop,
Let the trap door open
Let the teeth clattering stop.
Clattering with rusty tracks screech,
The constant need you have to give unwanted speech,
Your tongue flapping like a runaway train
Whistles in my tunnel ears
My tinnitus brain.
I care not for your holy sermon preached from on high
By the grace of God go forward say I,
Preach your gospel
Your enlightened views
To ones that would, and do so choose.
So as my dead eyes stare back at you,
Lost black ships abandoned in their milky pools,
I remain anchored by your conversation rock
Longing for time to speed its tick,
And hasten,
Its tock.
Copyright © 2017 Charlie Hasler.
Wonderful! Love it!
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Thank you very much!
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I can relate. You are gifted. Such deep writing
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I am glad you can relate to it, although dark it was fun to right. Your kind comment means a great deal.
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You are welcome
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But I DO care for your daily tales 🙂
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Good man Walt, as I do with yours.
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Fantastic! It was already fantastic after three verses: it’s length shows how strong your emotions were about the topic.
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Thank you Diana !
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Wow, this is great. I can relate as I am reading. There is so much noise every where, from every one. Great job convey these feelings.
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Thank you! I am glad you like it.
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Holy Christ, this was amazing! I’m a little ashamed; but I giggled.
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Thanks man! Glad you liked it
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Keeping my reply short😊”Fantastic”(please ignore the inverted commas)
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Brilliant message, thank you !
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Very powerful writing…sounds like you were pummeled by someone of faith, which is a common tragedy.
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Thank you for the kind comment
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Welcome.
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Were we at the same reading somewhere recently? I remember that guy. Lol Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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I have not been to a reading ever, very new to poetry but would love to give it a go, i am chuffed you liked it!
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Their words falls apon empty ears that DONT want to hear , my BAD on the first comment
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As I read through this, I had the feeling of being ever-increasingly annoyed by an incessantly buzzing, inescapably droning fly. It even made me a little angry. Great piece, Charlie.
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Thank you so much! we have all met someone who has that effect on us.
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This is how I feel about Facebook. 🙂
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Charlie, your work is so accessible, you tease out of simple form such beauty and thought I feel compelled to read it again, You’ve clearly opened the door and are well on the way to exorcising the demons (angst) that we all carry.
Thank you C.Hasler, Poet.
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Nigel, honestly, I am bowled over by your kind words, i really am. Please dont underestimate how humbled I am.
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Seems like a description of a person stuck in a tedious relationship and wants to just get out of it
Or someone who really hates the priest 😀
But maybe, just maybe a description of the fight between the ego and id where the id doesn’t want an adjustment anymore
Would love to know more about it. Is there a sequel or prequel?
Finely putted forth. Loved it.
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Hi mate, thanks for the kind comment, its essentially about that person that most of us know that just grates on us. But, through circumstance we have to sometimes, bite our lips and listen to them spout off. Basically I am just trying to get across the frustration of those situations. Albeit on an extreme level. No prequel or sequel planned…..until I speak to that person again.
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Ah seems like I have my own narrow window of poetic dissection. Then again I do compose vaguely myself. Enjoyed the poem en toto 🙂
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Not at all, I a firm believer it’s down to the reader to decide what the words represent, if they represent something to you then that’s what it is.
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Wow. There are so many people I would love to say all this to. I care not……Absolutely care not. Again. Amazing sir. ❤ ❤
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Thank you! I am glad you liked it
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Yeah. 🙂
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Brilliant piece. I love the simplicity of the message…We all know that person who speaks just to hear the sound of their own voice.
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I am glad you liked it, totally agree we all know that person. Cheers!
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Ps thank you for the kind comment
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