Lazuline Pearls

Just when the first note begins,
obsidian cowl nods.
Infinite reflection
reveals nothing:
no river of carmine
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 resile,
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
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.

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.