signs of a kingdom

Written after reading Macbeth again after so many years --- AND - don't foret to submit to my contest that will continue through Jan. 2 - MUCH ADO ABOUT THE BARD

 

the whispers

 in the night  of a king to be

and his wife

and

the knell

 

 oh that bell

how it mournfully weeps

 

for what is in the heart of man

 

bubbling brooding

toiling over the waters

troubling the quiet sleep of the innocent

 

three sisters

 

Laughter gurgles down

 their adamantine throats

and clings to those

 rugged cliffs

like fog

 

words words words

work into the skin

and

rip the man

untimly from his-story

 

a fathered child who is fatherless

a sudden wood  in the plain

a man not born of a woman

 

all for nothing

signifying everything

 

Author's Note

Plaease submit a poem about Shakespeare or one of his works in the contest MUCH ADO ABOUT THE BARD ~~~~

Reviews

[R J Askew]

Great stuff! I like these lines best:

and
rip the man
untimly from his-story

Have just been reading AS YOU LIKE IT with a son for one of his exams. All done now! Rosalind, o Rosalind! the minx!

[RainQueen]

Absolutely stunning use of rhythm, the words alone are musical, the imagery vivid. You make Macbeth more compelling than Shakespeare did, I think.

Now I need to go re-read it. Wonderful, wonderful write!