...Case You're Wondering If I Wish You Wouldn't Talk So Much

PAD Challenge day 4: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Case (blank);” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Case of Water,” “Case in Point,” “Case Study,” and “Case of the Missing Person.”

I hope everyone has a case of easy poeming today!

In this age of texting and all other phone-fixations,

Chatter has become cherished artwork 

even if most of it fades with the hour!

somehow when her kitchen is filled with chatter,

mother doesn't worry so much

if something's the matter

There is nothing quite like children to revive in us the art of 'chattering':)

They love to be talked to and listened to...

...a chat for their ears only on a fine afternoon

 (I wonder if they remember what they were discussing;-)

The ways of words

Ah, who can count

What most will amount to?

The poetry

Of you and me

A blip upon the blue

Our chatter

Yester-afternoon

Has scattered like its hours

The bloom of speech

Forgotten soon

Save a few chosen flow’rs

But I would rather

Hear the chatter

That soon fades away

Than listen to you

Looking at me (or your phone)

With nothing to say

© Janet Martin

Top photo cropped from this performance where at 14 mos. old clatter is as exciting as chatter!