
Meditations on Messiaen
Why do the people?
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Push to Shove
When push comes to shove, who stands
at one end of the gangplank, who at the other,
the shipboard one with a gun or a cutlass,
the other poised above circling sharks,
their grey triangular mini-sails threatening.
Can you hear the siren song emerging from
Davey Jones, waiting below, his locker door
open, as it has been so often before? Is this
fate or a fait accompli? Don’t ask me.
Let’s leave him there, the condemned man,
walking his plank, tied blindfold to his stake, seated
before the firing squad, standing on the crossing,
not quite ready to dance on a rope’s end, or riding
the tumbril to La Place de la Bastille, carrying
the time-bomb candle that will light him to bed.
Waiting, waiting, like them, we are all of us waiting,
in media res, waiting for push to come to shove.
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Fantastic!
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The poems inspired by Messiaen are really something different. They surge up through his music. I am having great fun with them. Thank you for your encouraging comments!
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Blunt, but fab!
We are indeed all like them.
I haven’t been in the blogosphere for ages and ages – hope ll well with you Roger
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