Calliope

All hail the mead and brandy...and internal dialogue!!

Well.

 

3 AM.

 

Hello 3 AM.

How long has it been?

 

Years.

 

2 years to be exact.

What's so new now?

Another muse, I suppose.

Its still the same time

as it was before.

With him.

 

Yeah...

 

Its different though, right?

No more soft stuff,

no more silly musings

over a moon, over an

archeological dig, right?

Ha, who the f**k am I kidding?

It's still a goddamn dig.

 

Either way I slice it...

I'm digging a litte deeper

to myself.

I may not always come out

on top

clean, shining

but I find things

that could be considered

worth looking at.

 

The rain...

 

Do you hear it?

I hear it pattering on the roof,

the windows,

it's rhythmic, pitterings

drawing me toward truths

at 3 am.

 

F*****g 3 AM.

I suspect....

 

I will have my

4 AMbursts rather

shortly, even

if the writer

declares it otherwise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[I.R.]

I loved the dichotomy between the title and the actual poem. Calliope, muse of epic poetry, and a mellow poem about the musings that rise at 3 a.m. I loved that. I also loved the relaxed tone of the speaker, so conversational yet not pedestrian at all. My most favorite part " Either way I slice it.../ I dig a little deeper/ To myself." I loved the tension the verb slice does when paired with digging into one's self. The poem, I think, is the moments of introspection that arise in the dead of night, and how those moments release inspirations which turn into actual writing. Also, good use of alliteration.

[Narnie]

love the pitter patter.

(mine is 2am as you know, haha... gotta love those early morning mutters)

[Stephen Scaggs]

Dear Angelheaded Hipster,

Thank you for the somewhat-unofficial "read request." When the poem started out, I didn't know what to think because I didn't notice that you had wrote in parentheses, "inner dialogue." But after re-reading it, I got more of what it said. Clarity is always important in a poem (I'm such a hypocrite.) I love the flow, the word usage, and the rare use of the curse word in that I actually like it; most people use a curse word just for the sake of cursing in a poem, but I thought it fit appropriately where you placed it. Did have to pull out my dictionary to define "Calliope." I have periods (not the female kind or the grammatical kind) where I have insomnia. A very good theme and well illustrated idea. Thanks for sharing. n_n Kudos. 9.4/10.

Sincerely,
S. W. Scaggs

[Little Blue]

A perfect example of a writer at three in the morning. Often, I delight in doing the same thing. Great read.

[Robert Luna]

This speaks to me so deeply. I am not sure how to explain exactly what this piece made me feel and think as I am almost at a lost for words which rarely happens. The intensely interesting thing about this piece is the simply gesture that was felt as I read line after line and the involvement of myself with the words and thoughts it conveyed to me. Always a pleasure to emerge myself in your world of words.



Great Job!!!!!!!

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Calliope, muse of epic poetry and rhetoric, boasts tales of ages...


There are nine streets in New Orleans in Central City named after these muses…I did not know about them until I was 40 years old...oh, I knew those streets all too well, but not of the beauty in the names

I hear them...on your cheeks

[Ed Hart]

3 AM is great if you don't have anywhere to go...people gone is great, because the road was always open, and they were leaving anyway...the best thing is always now...