*03 Peace & Quiet Poem by John Knight

This poem is written in BLANK VERSE
14 lines and 10 syllables per line.


We live in increasingly noisy World
Even in shops (once such quiet havens)
We have wall to wall musak and mobiles
Nowhere on Earth is ever free from them.
The mad fobile moan of the mobile phone
Is everywhere - on trains and on busses
On the street and in the park and children
As young as three can be heard using them.
I never knew what a 'telephone' was
Until I was sixteen when i started
Work and even then it took me a while
To realise the person on the line
Was not in the next room but AMERICA! ! !
I vow never to own a MOBILE PHONE.

John Knight - 5 March 2011