#NaPoWriMo
Here’s our optional prompt for the day. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that is inspired by a piece of music, and that shares its title with that piece of music. Need an example? Here’s A. Van Jordan’s “Que Sera Sera” and Adrian Matejka’s “Soave Sia Il Vento.”
Happy writing!
THE SOUND OF SILENCE by Simon & Garfunkel (Shadorma)
Does silence
have a sound, or is
it truly
without voice?
As deafness encroaches is
the silence golden?
Even dreams
are full of voices
they call and
shout, yell, scream.
Each voice clamours to be heard
needing attention.
Silence in
meditation is
welcome it
clears the sound
of the chattering ego's
negativity.
Is there sound
between minding the
gaps or are
they silent?
Words are sounds, so important
to communicate.
Have we now
forgotten how to
speak to one
another, do
we just send silent texts to
each other - speechless?
In the streets
handsets glued to our
hands, talking
talking, to
the disembodied voices
at the line's end
Until they
stop coming, are they
all dead and
gone, final
silence swallowed them all up?
Where have they all gone?
John Stuart
Mill said " Bad men need
nothing more to
compass their
ends, than that good men should look
on and do nothing."
Let's be the
good people who will
break silence
give sound to
our protestations and make
the true difference.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2024
VIXEN of VERSE 
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