The Audience

A sip

a breath

and then madness

How often we live without

where the color of summer grows wild

and the autumn apple 

still nesting in the branch 

nothing but grief to settle us

nothing but joy

You came looking 

But 

    no 

I did not hold a key

I did not grant forgiveness

for the promise  you had already 

broken

And to you my little one

like the gray fox of the morning

whispering enumerates

looking for 

syllables  

that still may be asking

you tried not to laugh 

but then the language cured 

and  you understood

I had heard you listening  

I too had felt the painful love

In every newness there is a drink of gold

a wanting of life 

and a painful paradise

insatiable as the dark hands of the audience

Reviews

[Neville]

I am not one to usually blaspheme .. but Jeez how I wish I had got here before you .. where have we been for so long .. Neville

[Perdition]

Left turn at Albuquerque huh..yeah me too..Much obliged and so they say..lol. Appreciated Neville !

[W. Barrett Munn]

I felt like I was watching, half-asleep, a movie on Turner Classic Movies where the lady says, you had me at hello. A wonderful opening that allowed a dreamlike state to carry me throughout the poem without needing bullet points or highlighting.

Winston

[Perdition]

And just when I was about to use my laser pen..hahaha. Thank you so much for your kind review. "Jerry Maguire" and Renēe Zellweger was the actress. Wonderful heart-wrenching scene.

[Ken e Bujold]

riveting. from the spellbinding opening ... a sip, inhalation and then bedlam through the weaving text of natural wonder to inner turmoil ... the quest for lost syllables, ah yes the lost syllables ... climaxing in the mind-bending finale ... a drink of gold/a wanting/pain

nightmarish thoughts to hold deeply through my own dark slumber
:)

[Perdition]

How you do find that thread of meaning beneath the meanings and pull until the only thing left is a page with the bewildered spinning words..and it always brings me pleasure to read. Thank you, kind Ken. Truly one of my favorite reviewers. Sending you those warm pre-autumn August vibes!!

[Einstein Noodle]

interesting .. enigmatic .. kind of spell binding .. lots of dichotomy of love and pain and grief and joy .. your poem "The Audience" (which i take to be me) makes me want to read it over again and again .. thinking there is something there for me ... i guess it has hooked me :)
E.

[Perdition]

Hmmm..what a very interesting take on this one and as always, Yes of course those that know me well are quite aware and ticked at my dichotomies. lol. Wonderfully kind of you to stop by and give such a crisp and interesting spin and bold review. Thank you so much! ~

[Einstein Noodle]

nothing to get upset about .. we all have it .. ;)