Poetry list
3 operas 1 poem
love offered and rejected
love imprisoned, imperilled
and set free
love exposed to dark forces
and the unresolved past
what songs are sung by
broken hearts and fractured
senses into the now of our
lives and somehow we too
bleed and weep fear and
fight flee and forgive
flourish or forget the
pools and curtains of light
facades of illusion waves of
sound spinning a golden
string that vibrates in our
hearts and weaves a tale
into the moment
and why
to be a traveller to
every world our alienated
self–aggrieved forced jigsaw
picturing a crazy truth
and vision my hall of
mirrors with hideous
distortions like ghostly
monsters haunts the
paths and bridges we
all must take prodded
by the clock the tick that
jerks and jolts the
yearning for a haven
and sanctuary where
pain is no more
there is no end till the
final curtain of the
apocalypse angels and
trumpets no longer off
stage in the mighty
maelstrom of mystery’s
magnificence and
munificence all sense
nonsense
Eugene Onegin
Fidelio
The Turn of the Screw
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