“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Saturday, April 20, 2019
which explains the silence...
The monkey and the muse
were in the
den
together
waiting for one
to speak-
The muse sat,
arms crossed
across the locked up chest
and the monkey just
gesticulates
in wild attempts
to aggravate
a predicted response-
whereby
two arms finally fell like pillars
allowing a plumage of smile to seep out
of the rubble-
You don't need a hand-
were the only words
I heard
eavesdropping
I struggled
to recognize the voice.
While trying to listen in
I lost sight of where I stood
momentarily,
and then the den was silent
while the world
was deafening,
when I could not
help
but find focus
there seemed only one-
source of the sound,
and only
one shadow
emerged.
Painting by Janis Rozentals, 'The Princess and the monkey' c. 1913 in the Latvian National Museum of Art [Public domain].
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