Stillness Poem by Frank Ammerlaan

Stillness

Rating: 5.0


When I start my computer my
news feed pops up and I
can pick my own scare I
can choose between a corona-virus a
terror attack from the enemy a
blowing plane crash near Calcutta an
upcoming economic debt crisis a
president tweeting "fake news, fake news" yet

when I close the feed,
just sit down,
feet on the ground,
listen,
look,
breathe,
I get none of it all, now do I?

Submerge in Stillness.

It's actually a very nice, very quiet day today, isn't it?

Friday, January 24, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: listen,look,stillness
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Please also check out the youtube channel belonging to mr John Butler for an absolute taste of stillness. Best ASMR around :)
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jazib Kamalvi 24 January 2020

Such a nice poem, Frank Ammerlaan. Read my poem, Love and L u s t. Thanks.

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Kingsley Egbukole 24 January 2020

Very interesting one on stillness. It creates peace of mind.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 24 January 2020

I concur with your beautiful thoughts. Yet sometimes we need to know what is going on with our community. A pragmatic write well conveyed.

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Kostas Lagos 24 January 2020

A momemnt of silence, a moment of rest, so the world's news won't drive us crazy.Excellent poem

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Sylvia Frances Chan 21 February 2020

Your last poem submitted here was in 2017. Indeed, PH is a poem site that gives most problems to newcomers on PH, I came here in 2011, but PH was so very difficult to explore.ALSO, I was active on a beautiful poemsite and had there many poet friends where we daily were " communiucating" responding their poems and discussing our poems through messages. I want to tell you that PERHAPS I had not paid attention to the possibilities here

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Gehakt Bal 28 April 2022

This is a good poem. But not as good as the McChicken, the best fast food sandwich.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2020

5) a great viral infection and since we can fly and travel by any vehicle, we are afraid to be infected with that. Thank you for sharing yiour thioughts, Frank. An excellent narrative poem or an excellent confessional poem. I like your poems very much concerning Jesus and the rest. I am rather shy, but I have always the urge to TELL things, so thus I must write those words. Dear Frank, keep writing (creating) Your poems are worded intelligently

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2020

4) PH gives marks and scores from 1-10 since I ever knew when I came here. Having come here in 2011 but I never knew there was such a rule or customs here to give that to another poet when we are giving our commnts here. But since I discovered that, I started to give scores. Yours I wish to give a 10 TOP score. since your poem concerns The Corona Virus and Trump sh*t tweets that are faking news.Yes, great country in square km, gets oft

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2020

3) This recent poem you created is just mesmerizing, mesmerizing our thoughts, it captures well the situation you are in, and as we reside in the same LowLand, I can tell you now, that was very quiet on the date you submitted your poem, but afterwards Ciara came and was raging here. You of course still remember, no? Now it's Dennis turn

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2020

2) So that was why I had an absence here from 2011 till 2017. Also because I was on a fantastic poem site with poems that had my preference. I write the 2nd response for the 3rd time, I write this number 2 since PH did not allow the word a.m.a.t.e.u.r. here. I just know that. But that word is prohibited, so your poems are considered prodessionals, since PH did not allow the word a.m.a.t.e.u.r. You are here a poet like us all who write here, Frank.

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