@tanweerdar #MastoPrompt #ringing

I hear a constant ringing
In my ears and in my head
A reminder of what I dread

The world is full of color
But I see only gray
Everything is duller
When joy has gone away

The days are long and endless
But I feel no sense of time
Nothing can impress
When nothing seems sublime

The people are kind and caring
But I feel only numb
Nothing is worth sharing
When hope has succumbed

@tanweerdar

We had a hollow time of it,
The #ringing of the plague bells
Up & down every street
Of every town & village,
The cathedral cities silent in the rain.

We had a bloodied time of it,
Secure in the dungeons &
Torture the crown reserves
For those who speak their
Minds openly next to
The eventual scaffold
While the ravens sing.

We had a deadly time of it,
Under the blade,
While the country, headless
In its lunacy, watched us
Executed in the name of
Peace.

The phone
I will not answer it
The bells
I will not heed them
My ears
I will not fret them
I will be still
And imagine
Silence

#mastoprompt #575 #ringing #smallpoems #poetry

what is it he hears
each morning when he gets up?
oh, yes, the ringing

#MastoPrompt #ringing #haiku #575 #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity

@tanweerdar