This is a recounting of an actual event which took place a couple of nights ago, triggered by some fairly strong medication to try to ease some severe pains in my shoulder. The medication was also causing some nearly continuous hiccups and so...
Awake Nightmares - 15 Jul 11
Hic
A ghastly
Hic
Metronome
Hic
Counting off
Hic
Three-second
Hic
Intervals
Hic
Into the rest of the night
The visions in my mind
Stilled
Silenced
By the constant hiccups
The constant
Conspiracy
Between lung and gut
To annoy
Shh
Listen…the voices whispered
In the sudden silence
They could be heard
Again
And Muse
Stepped forward
She had suggestions
For another poem
A cow in the distance
A bird calls
A car softly rumbles past
A church bell strikes two
…what?
No shush
Hic
The metronome
Hic
Again drowns out
The voices
I did manage to get to sleep but only after Muse got me to write this poem out [yes, I can write by hand as well as using a keyboard].
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lol oh oh ooh yes i know this place well .. how good is this poem and for every reader how many will read this journey with you .. brilliant dol and how poetry has a way of hiccuping out of you such magic words .. always beez :*)
ReplyDeleteThank you Beez ♥ for your really lovely comments ♥
ReplyDeleteso glad Muse got through between hics!
ReplyDeleteThank you dani ♥ 'twas painful but good to let it out ♥
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