Lazuline Pearls

an exerpt from From the Midst of the Maelstrom © 2010 David W Moore III

Just when the first note begins, 

the obsidian cowl nods,

and it ends.  

Infinite reflection 

reveals nothing: 

no effervescent brook 

no dialating candescence 

no opus magnum 

just a note 

echoing hauntingly. 

Oh sing a song! 

Sing a song never begun. 

Only the echo remains. 

Lazuline pearls drop 

bounce and return. 

The vacuum resonates 

reverberates 

searching 

longing 

yearning 

instruments at hand, 

trembling slightly. 

Oh sing a song! 

Sing a song never begun. 

Only the echo remains. 

The chromic rale 

and ursula tamed 

waiting 

anticipating 

humming 

thrumming 

the void tugging 

pulling to be filled. 

Oh sing a song! 

Sing a song never begun. 

Only the echo remains. 

Rejoined by the cosmic choir. 

The echo remains 

echo remains 

remains.

Author's Note

For my son Christian. I still hear your song.

Reviews

[alan peter kelly]

evocative of something in and on a grand scale...and yet with such descriptives as nothing echoe longing vaccuum and void to effectively reflect that something haunts as an absentee...i see the pearls fall...hear their thud thud thud thud upon the floor and sense some deep and eternal sadness in the song that never began...it is a song all the same...creating a sad ambience for which...i suppoose...you were aiming...strong piece...i respect and appreciate its existence...

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

haunting beautiful~ your author's note swells its affect even more within the heart~ even more so within hearts that have been strung tight on this brand of epic hurt and pain~ the echoing facets resound long after the poem is read~
I read this last night~ the touch of it still lingered this morning . . . ..

[Geralyn Miller]

Painfully beautiful; an artful melding of hearthurt and joy. This speaks to the spirit.

[Dante Balsote]

The sound does seem an echo to the sense.

[TAO]

Beautiful song... This makes my heart...I don't know... All I know is that now...I'm shunning television for music. Great, great work.

[Havatara]

I liked how you used the senses in this one, sight and sound. It was interesting and flowed nicely and I sincerely enjoyed it. Keep writing!

[Roxi L]

I like how you brought yourself into the poem. Again you impress me David.
Roxi

[Norma M Sutton]

This is nice. I like the use of color and sound in this.

[The Analog Kid]

Beautifully complex. I will have to read this a few times.

[Steph]

it's really well written. unfortunately because my vocabulary is about the size of a 9 year old i didn't really understand it, but that is no fault of yours. wonderful poem though :)

[Closedown]

Beautiful and haunting and so very sad. Wonderfully written.