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Open Poetry #33

The Merry Minstrels

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-09-25 03:21 AM

Hark!  The merry minstrels play
for you the trombone, trumpet, drums,
for me the harp and lilting flute
but lost are soft and dulcet tones
amidst the roar and thunder
of life’s definitive tune.

I watch and feel the floor
vibrate beneath my feet
and try to halt the flow
of the violent everyday
but one by one sweet melodies
disappear as if disowned
into dark and dreary corners
of life’s manufactured void.

Hark!  The merry minstrels play
for you the trombone, trumpet, drums,
and I’m robotically tuned in
into the stringent dictates
of life’s great ordinance.

There’s no one pulling strings
on a harp these days with wings
or blowing the breath of love
through a silver flute
but the merry minstrels play
and my choice, adapt or die,
moves me to the beat
of life’s indifference.

Definitively indifferent
is life’s great ordinance
in the banishment of tenderness
to a manufactured void
where you will not find the minstrels
whether five or twenty more
playing merrily!

EvocativeVerse2
Senior Member

since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

1 posted 2004-09-25 06:37 AM

Big grin! Love this! Oh yes. NOw I want to pick up my guitar and blast away the clouds.

Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history!

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2004-09-25 11:28 AM

Helen

It's hard to imagine life without music.

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

3 posted 2004-09-25 11:44 AM

I like this.

It sounds almost like the hammer of spin against the beauty of reason.

Dave

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