POEM: Timewarp

June 24, 2012 · Scotorum

This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The art is titled “Classical Menage.”

TIMEWARP

The ghosts of divas from the past
swirled throughout the cosmos vast,
brought back to earth con comet’s tail
to reprise the past senses’ regale.

The second time around proved strange,
as fogbanks rolled from beach to range.
Inside their homes no need to rise,
the audience came by surprise.
Silent smoke formed old time faces,
swirls of hair and fancy laces.
Would residents have looked that way,
views would have taken breath away.

None saw the eerie sight that night
of sopranos’ and altos’ flight,
although a few, while dozing off
heard vocalized old ballads soft.

Next day, on waking, some discussed
how dreams, as though from pixie dust,
had lifted them on wings of time
back to when a lusty rhyme
or patriotic stirring march
had proudly stiffened spines like starch
in bright blanched collars split by tie;
and every dreamer cast a sigh.

Poetry