Welcome to Your Poetry Dot Com - Read, Rate, Comment on, or Submit Poetry. Browse Poetry Forums, or just enjoy other parts of our poetic community.
One of the largest databases of poetry on the net, now over 198,500+ poems!
Welcome to Your Poetry Dot Com    Poems On Site: 198,500+   Comments On Poems: 427,000+   Forum Posts: 105,000+
Custom Search
  Welcome ! Home  ·  FAQ  ·  Topics  ·  Web Links  ·  Your Account  ·  Submit Poetry  ·  Top 30  ·  OldSite Link 29-May 11:56:57 AEST  
  Menu
  Home
· Micks Shop
· Our eBay Store· Error Submit
 Poetry
· Submit Poetry
· Least Read Poems
· Topics
· Members Listing
· Old Site Post 2001
· Old Site Pre 2001
· Poetry Archive
· Public Domain Poetry
 Stories
· Stories (NEW ! )
· Submit Story
· Story Topics
· Stories Archive
· Story Search
  Community
· Our Poetry Forums
· Our Arcade
100's of Games !

  Site Help
· FAQ
· Feedback

  Members Areas
· Your Account
· Members Journals
· Premium Sign-Up
  Premium Section
· Special Section
· Premium Poems
· Premium Submit
· Premium Search
· Premium Top
· Premium Archive
· Premium Topics
 Fun & Games

· Jokes
· Bubble Puzzle
· ConnectN
· Cross Word
· Cross Word Easy
· Drag Puzzle
· Word Hunt
 Reference
· Dictionary
· Dictionary (Rhyming)
· Site Updates
· Content
· Special Content
 Search
· Search
· Web Links
· All Links
 Top
· Top 30
  Help This Site
· Donations
 Others
· Recipes
· Moderators
Our Other Sites
· Embroidery Design Store
· Your Jokes
· Special Urls
· JM Embroideries
· Public Domain Poetry and Stories
· Diamond Dotz
· Cooking Info and Recipes
· Quoof - Australian Story

  Social

Array ( [sid] => 153589 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Darkness vs silence [time] => 2009-09-24 10:05:07 [hometext] => ..had a conversation with a friend the other day,the question was if you had to choose would you choose to be blind or deaf?...... [bodytext] => Darkness vs silence

Black the only familiar color
and sounds the only vision seen.
I have held a rose in my hand
and smelled it,
just don't know what it looks like......

Silence the only sound ever heard
and even though movement is happening around you
nothing really makes sense.
The sound of laughter and crying
all sounds the same,
like nothing.

Don't know what a waterfall looks like
never saw the sun rise
nor the mountains in the distance
Don't know the beauty in anything.
Don't know if beauty has a face.
Even if it did I will never see it.

I see the waterfall
just water falling.......
I see the sun rise
and the birds flying
just flying.....
Can't hear them singing...

Never saw my wife in her wedding dress.
Never saw my daughter on her graduation.
Never saw my son play sports.
Never saw my grand child.
I never saw........

Can't hear my husband say "I love you"
Can't hear my baby say "mama"
Can't hear my girlfriend calling me just to hear how my day was.
Can't hear the sound of my name.
Can't hear.....

These things we take for granted and don't realise
that in darkness we see
and with silence we hear
that all the things that's important to us
should be treasured like you will never see it again
or hear it never more.



[comments] => 4 [counter] => 164 [topic] => 43 [informant] => LadyRose [notes] => Corrected spelling as requested - Moderator_18 September 24, 2009 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 13 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
Darkness vs silence

Contributed by LadyRose on Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 10:05:07 AM in AEST
Topic: oops



Darkness vs silence

Black the only familiar color
and sounds the only vision seen.
I have held a rose in my hand
and smelled it,
just don't know what it looks like......

Silence the only sound ever heard
and even though movement is happening around you
nothing really makes sense.
The sound of laughter and crying
all sounds the same,
like nothing.

Don't know what a waterfall looks like
never saw the sun rise
nor the mountains in the distance
Don't know the beauty in anything.
Don't know if beauty has a face.
Even if it did I will never see it.

I see the waterfall
just water falling.......
I see the sun rise
and the birds flying
just flying.....
Can't hear them singing...

Never saw my wife in her wedding dress.
Never saw my daughter on her graduation.
Never saw my son play sports.
Never saw my grand child.
I never saw........

Can't hear my husband say "I love you"
Can't hear my baby say "mama"
Can't hear my girlfriend calling me just to hear how my day was.
Can't hear the sound of my name.
Can't hear.....

These things we take for granted and don't realise
that in darkness we see
and with silence we hear
that all the things that's important to us
should be treasured like you will never see it again
or hear it never more.







Copyright © LadyRose ... [ 2009-09-24 10:05:07]
(Date/Time posted on site)





Advertisments:






Previous Posted Poem         | |         Next Posted Poem


 
Sorry, comments are no longer allowed for anonymous, please register for a free membership to access this feature and more
All comments are owned by the poster. Your Poetry Dot Com is not responsible for the content of any comment.
That said, if you find an offensive comment, please contact via the FeedBack Form with details, including poem title etc.
Re: Darkness vs silence (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 10:35:49 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Excellent message and beautiful writing.


Re: Darkness vs silence (User Rating: 1 )
by LadyXclusive on Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 12:02:39 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Inspiring, truthful, beautiful.
~*~Xclusive~*~


Re: Darkness vs silence (User Rating: 1 )
by longhaircg on Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 01:06:05 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Absolutely beautiful writing, so true to life.
thank you for sharing


Re: Darkness vs silence (User Rating: 1 )
by Ambivalence on Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 02:20:57 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
me and my friends would always ask those hypothetical questions, and this was one of them.
anyway, u've explained yourself wonderfully here, and it's a sad truth people take whatever they have for granted. you've empathized with the deaf/blind quite nicely here. great write...

take care

-K.Z.




While every care is taken to ensure the general sites content is family safe, our moderators cannot be in all places; all the time. Please report poetry and or comments that are in breach of our site rules HERE (Please include poem title or url). Parents also please ensure that you supervise your children well when they are on the internet; regardless of what a site says about being, or being considered, child-safe.

Poetry is much like a great photo, a single "moment in time" capturing many feelings and emotions. Yet, they are very alive; creating stirrings within the readers who form visual "pictures" of the expressed emotions within the Poem. ©

Opinions expressed in the poetry, comments, forums etc. on this site are not necessarily those of this site, its owners and/or operators; but of the individuals who post items to this site.
Frequently Asked Questions | | | Privacy Policy | | | Contact Webmaster

All submitted items are Copyright © to their submitter. All the rest Copyright © 2002-2050 by Your Poetry Dot Com

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owners.

Script Generation Time: 0.052 Seconds. - View our Site Map | .© your-poetry.com