Listening to the Sound of Writers

 

I listen to the sound
of writers
whimpering and complaining
of this, of that
a coma or a semicolon
I hear the sounds of writers
trying to make sentences connect
and poems with literary value
every so often
a bark of satisfaction
or a sob of complete, mind numbing disarray
but the clamor of the writers
put all together
sounds like a violent Tchaikovsky piece
with its swirling, convoluted breathtaking majesty
of sound
this is what I hear
when I listen to the sound of writers

©September 5, 2016 / Jerry Pat Bolton