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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2008-11-10 02:52 PM

THEATRE
1998

Rubber screams
and then the bang
and metal turning on itself,
…..and then the sirens.

Amidst the debris,
bodies strewn like amputated butterfly wings,
move or moan or merely breathe,
and then there are the others.
Blood flows unchecked on dark blue tar.

Like an orchestrated wave,
eager androids,
who daily cry, ‘Peace from Violence’
rush from warm retreats
into the road and the cold night rain,
crowding the wings, the steps, the stage,
to stand compacted in a circle
for the best impact of acoustics,
lighting
and atmosphere,
gawking at the bloody players,
digging a new vantage point
when one or other puerile puppet dares to obscure the view.
Feasting vultures fight,
but
for their rightful portion
and clear their living space of disease
as they were intended,
but these clones from some third-rate horror movie,
count dead bodies gleefully,
and argue about which live body moaned and when,
and if the thought occurred to them
would be grateful to the playwright for the entertainment,
which … for a while … fills the spaces around the sparse grey coils
in their hollow civilised heads,
taking mental notes for those who don’t
have tickets…

… but then the blood stops flowing
and the actors leave the stage
in ambulances which scream their cargo’s plight,
and, like painkillers,
the adrenalin wanes,
and, with one last glance at remaining props
to get the details right,
the spectators turn themselves
and their thoughts
away
in bunches
to substitute tomorrow’s talking point
for warmth, coffee, biscuits and disaster on the small screen …… for a while.

- Owl

Midnitesun

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Gaia

1 posted 2008-11-10 03:03 PM

This sent a chill up and down my spine.
Intense vivid write, Diana.

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

2 posted 2008-11-10 03:42 PM

Diana
you write with such a profound heart

I cannot speak to this poem
it is a dirge
a reality

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

3 posted 2008-11-10 04:10 PM

Quite a world we live in
to elicit such passion and intense art
from both a player and spectator in it all
We are as is for now
Let us all pray for a better tomorrow

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2008-11-10 04:29 PM

Now I know I'll apply the brakes to mine! Mine was just a mere metaphor for menopausal night terrors!

and wince

and I'm gonna need help getting offa my knees, too.

I don't know how to say it without the pun, because well? It IS impactful!

SPIRIT
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since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

5 posted 2008-11-10 04:31 PM

Very powerful!

Dinah

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2008-11-10 05:21 PM

Horror, horror, horror, I wish it would have been a movie....Owl your poem is alas so close to reality, this happens so much in our world...Thank you for the denounciation..

hugs

yann

Artic Wind
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since 2007-09-16

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Realm of Supernatural

7 posted 2008-11-10 06:19 PM

Spookalishicous~

ARCTIC WIND

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

8 posted 2008-11-10 07:04 PM

An impressive write, dear Diana! By seing it too often we have become insensitive.

May we live and act from the heart.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2008-11-10 08:32 PM

Powerful, Diana, especially when we know that "All the worlds a stage."
Ida

Pantheress
Member

since 2008-11-02

Posts 215
Queensland, Australia

10 posted 2008-11-10 08:37 PM

You wrote a picture so gruesome and true, it was like i was looking to,

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

11 posted 2008-11-11 11:25 AM

Thank you, Kacy, for feeling this so vividly.

Thank you, Kate, for your kind words and your understanding.  Lovely to see you in here, again.

Thank you, inkedgoddess.  Yes, let’s pray for a better tomorrow.

Thanks, Karen.  Menopausal night terrors are terrifying and aren’t “just” menopausal night terrors”.  They ARE menopausal night terrors!  Giggles about the “impactful”.  Hope the brakes (on your car) work well!

Thank you, Spirit.  Unfortunately the physical impact of such a crash is powerful too – far too powerful.

Thank you, Yann for seeing it so clearly.

Thank you, Arctic Wind.  I like your word.

Thank you Margherita.  Yes, too few people live from the heart, and the few that do, all seem to be here in Pip!

Thanks, Ida, for highlighting the theme.

Thanks Pantheress for living this, but I am glad you weren’t in the (composite) accident.

- Owl

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

12 posted 2008-11-12 06:17 PM

Fine writing...James

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

13 posted 2008-11-13 11:42 AM

Thank you James. I am glad you thought so.

- Owl

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