A Silent World

Aw Im sure your not that much of a casualty ;)
I like this a lot, i made me think
Which is a hard task for me to do haha
Yaz x

I enjoyed this greatly, Luigi. I really like the mouth imagery.

Beeme xx

Dear Yazmin, I have read your post in the Forum regarding writer's block. By writing something based on the weekly Inspiration Point you may overcome the obstacle that's stopping you to come up with new ideas. In the meantime many thanks for reading and commenting.

Luigi x

So glad you like my effort, Beeme. My grateful thanks for letting me know.

Luigi xx

Love the image of the 'ruby mouth', Luigi! Lovely rhythm in this one ;)

Magic xxx

Lovely. A very sweet, yet poignant poem. Well done.

Nathan ;-)

I heartily thank you for being so appreciative, dear Rebecca.

Luigi xxx

Dear Nathan, thank you for setting such an interesting subject for the Inspiration Point. Very challenging. Incidentally, way back in 2004 I wrote a poem on another phisical disability. Perhaps you may care to have a look. Here is the link:
http://www.abctales.com/story/luigi_pagano/etchings

Best regards, Luigi

I read 'Etchings' and I really like it. I love the simple, punchy structure, as if the poem itself was a memory ;-) Thanks for posting the link ;-)

Nathan.

I appreciate you reading that other poem, Nathan.
It was one of my earliest efforts and I am quite fond of it. It spurs me to come up with something better.

Best, Luigi.

I think that this is class Luigi, in fact it is now one of my favorite of yours. It just seems to hit the right buttons for me and explains without over sentimentalizing, the authors 'ailment'. Really enjoyed, well done.

Chris ;)

new luigi_pagano
Very interesting well done!
but as I have 2 faculties missing
nearly gone one smell? one hearing aid,"Tinnnitus"
never heard of then,thought brain going,test and plAY LOUD NOISES in the ears,press a button everytime sound up down,in end think hear one and may not? think finished no do other one huge ear phones, out of space?can have a masker that's play tapes sounds like sea or quiet music, masking? do I take it right you are hard of hearing.
re; lip read, is lip reading. This is so
agravating to me anyway as P sound like B
and mine talks me when I have taken out gadget.
Blaring music sometimes o loud in music centres if
go singing as it drowns the voice.Now these digital ow? and age, anxiety, road acciddent, coffee electric pylons, and tablets, meetings very interesting.
no good on me,all fix up hosp;poking about say 3 4 months get used to,got outside he was with me for once,couldn't hear thing stopped in park and greatful put old one back in, so hanging on to my old make, as not doing anymore.Please forgive if it's not meant to mean your hearings in trouble.Aye!
I did few months on signing". I will love to read your other one.Let you know. and smell gone since 14 polio,never talk of, never been known.But can't moan.makes one very sensitive seen so much.But some smells I wouldn.t want to know anyway.Babies nappies etc; but love flower's,gas perfume can't, but thankful.Read my "Mangle mess of some of life's experiences" bit in there. please and comment.
all the best julie xx cavalcader (:-
I did quiz on here, what went pop, no one answered, it was battery went flat?Hearing aid. Damn things. pop noise in middle of watching X factor ug!
julie xx

Chris, you are too kind. The Inspiration Point gave me the impetus to write about an imaginary situation with two people, one of which was deaf - trying to understand the words being spoken - and the interlocutor being unaware of the other's impediment.
Your feedback is very much valued. Thanks.

Dear Julie, I see that you identify with this poem.
Since you are a sufferer yourself, you well understand how certain afflictions can be debilitating.
You feel frustrated and anxious that you can’t overcome those difficulties and somehow,
reluctantly have to adjust to the situation. I can comprehend to a certain extent your discomfort and offer you my sympathies.

Luigi xx

New julie
dear Lugi,
thankyou answering long comment.
Well I went for Tinnitus group once
but wrong day, it was deaf asked come
in and help yhem play games and whatever.
Which took me take up signing just 1st part.
Canny that lead me into having H/aid myself.
I have read your other one very good, but I am
so convinced it's true. Is it.But that's art of good
Author isn't it.I can't tell say wrong thing.Strange
world, people think if you smile, one has never been through it, or may not understand. How wrong they are.and much more than cat' has nine lives.
julie x

new Luigi-Pagano
Well done on the cherry!
I thought it maybe it was so intricately put.
Just seen programmme on wheelchair bound people
and how get fashion and confidence back, Naked as well, dressed her got her choose clothes or he did, overriding
disability. Questioned in the street. Fantastic, new clothes make over, modernised,and other things,and catwalk a new wheelchair. All friend's never knew how she felt inside.!Terrific poster's done of her in all things. It has opened up new diameter all, for models, and one posed in shop window in wheelchair amazing.
Fantastic programme.she looked terrific, in all angles! and good and liked herself.Thought could never wear modernise clothes one modelled in a window.Inspiration to all.
julie x

beautiful. i love "mother natures casualty" - makes it an innocent infatuation

Thanks once again, Julie, for your sensitive comments. You are so right in pointing out the strength of character shown by some people with one or more disabilities and, as you say, they are an inspiration to all in the way they adjust to the circumstances.
I am glad that this piece was awarded a cherry and I am obliged to the editors for the accolade.

Luigi x

I am grateful to you, inchiki, for stopping by and leaving this nice comment.

All the best, Luigi.

Do you know, Luigi - for quite some years now I have been following your poetry, and nearly always, a male voice comes into my head as I read each particular one and I could never put a name to it.

Then today, as I re-read this, I finally twigged. Cyril Fletcher, of course! He was a master of his art too, way back in the nineteen fifties, I do believe. His wry smile I can still picture.

Anyway, I digress, brilliant poem, as per usual, and if hadn't got a cherry I should have eaten my hat;-)

Tina xxx

Cyril Fletcher, eh? Not a particular favourite of mine, Tina. He was OK with his odd odes on 'That's Life' with Esther Rantzen but I preferred Pam Ayre's cheeky humour or Spike Milligan's zany style.
Fletcher himself described his outrageous rhymes as "unique in their feeble banality", according to 'The Indepedent'.
Any road, as they say in my parts of the world, thanks for the comment.

Luigi xxx

Luigi, also being a tinnitus sufferer, I immediately identified with this piece but it is usually me with sporting a puzzled look. Nice piece...

Mark, I am sorry to hear that you suffer from that particular disorder. I hope that you are not too inconvenienced by that ailment. I understand there are remedies and even cures for it. Are you receiving any treatment?
Writing this has brought home to me that none of us are perfect.
Thanks for the comment.
All the best, Luigi.

Luigi, mine is congenital and there is really much to be done about it, unfortunately. I am investigating some noise-cancelling hearing aides but these are almost prohibitively expensive.

The most inconveniencing thing about about this, aside from often having to ask people to repeat themselves or completely missing something said to me, is I have to give up being in bands. I simply don't want to problem to get any worse. Apart from this, I don't allow it to affect my life.

Some of the research I believe being conducted into this disorder is with Sulfur-crested cockatoos, who have the ability to regenerate the hairs in their ear canals because their screeches are so loud. Maybe someday in the future, there will be a complete cure for us suffers.

new Dynamaso
hello! Yes I've been their to?
for years didn't know that is what
it was and called.As I said can loss hearing,
anxiety,accidents. I used go to meetings specialists
hospital give a talk,and drawing ear canals. even any kind of pill segments go into the ear cells told.But one person say it was coffee or near pylons loads things. But as I said masking tapes of sea can be bought. Relax listen quiet music.If you have had test done, large ear phones and noise is detected by pressing button every time, one hear a sound!high low soft loud.thought they finished know another half hour the other ear.Can be hairs decreasing and hearing goes less.I used to think brain trouble no,they said I have a brain but hearing going. less stressful life good.I do hope you get all help. I do
have hearing aid, whistles and not working 100% but
never have a diget tried hopeless! so not making any more old type hearing aids. But I will not give mine up. Do write and tell me how you get on.Aye! Keep away anything noisy or to loud.I am sure hubby is going deaf to or just not answering much younger than me.Won't do anything about it.A healer from church once sai it was Tinnitus' never heard of there
is a society one can join few £1. ideas.
julie x cavalcader

new Lugi_Pagano
Dear Lugi I forgot to say the paper
other day had all coloured pictures of great
Artists, "Van Gough" and many others "The Laughing Cavalier" etc; said how they all had some kind of disability and "Mona Lisa" surprising how they were great Artists and over came flatulence and depression, etc:Smiles and alughter look not necessarily so of photos.
amazing to read all about things wrong with them about it all.Can't judge a book by it's covering can you= expression.
julie x cavalcader (:-

It just goes to show that none of us is perfect, Dear Julie.

Luigi x

Julie, I've had the tests and had it determined exactly what is going on. I don't suffer for it, though. My life is full, wonderful and generally happy, which is more than a lot have. I can only be grateful for my health and the peace I can give myself.

As I live in Australia, I don't think any society I can recommend would be suitable for you. There are definitely support groups on line but these are more for those who suffer anxiety and depression because of their tinnitus and not really for me.