PUPPETRY

Michael Edwards

 

 

PUPPETRY 

 

In sleep she found the festal art

of animated puppetry

the strings she wrenched in rapid haste

her actions cloaked in fantasy.

 

With providence in sleep ordained

she learned to bear infirmity

the cicatrice in evidence

of wounds from darkest imagery.

 

 

 

 

  • Author: Michael Edwards (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 14th, 2018 01:22
  • Comment from author about the poem: Leave you to make what you will of both poem and painting - it's a monotype painting done in oils.
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 41
  • Users favorite of this poem: Aislinn Wilson, Laura🌻
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  • Goldfinch60

    Though provoking write Michael.

    I like the artwork, I can see many things in it.

    • Michael Edwards

      Thanks Andy - the painting is one of a series I am currently working on - glad you liked them both.

    • FredPeyer

      As Goldie said, it is thought provoking, am just not sure yet of what kind of thoughts! 🙂
      I think sometimes your fertile mind is miles ahead of us!

      • Michael Edwards

        I guess the festal art is really the dreams which develop from nowhere and are really just fantasy. The dark imagery of the dream leaves scars which are only borne in sleep itself.

        Probably still clear as mud. The truth is I love words and word associations and love to weave them together - if the result makes little obvious sense so be it - just like abstract art the reader is left too interpret howsoever he wishes - or not at all.

        • FredPeyer

          Clear as mud, Michael! In the old days they probably would have burned you on the stake as a sorcerer!
          Truth to be told, I love your word associations and weaving. If I get it, fine. If I don't, that's fine too! Like you said, it is like a painting. We can like it without understanding it. Actually, the same goes for women!

          • Michael Edwards

            Spot on Fred - including the women bit - love them but do I understand them?

          • orchidee

            Be with you in a moment - *gets out dictionary for cicatrice*!

            • Michael Edwards

              Scar but scar would have interrupted the metre so cicatrice it was - cheers Orchi.

            • BRIAN & ANGELA

              LOVE THE MONOTYPE ~ It has a real Roller Coaster feel to it and of course in the "Old fashioned" Goose Fair we used to have at Nottingham there were always PUPPETS and MARIONETTES ~ that's your link !

              He can stand on his head
              While making his bed
              And then in a minute get in it
              He'll do any trick
              That you'd ever pick
              And then in addition ARITHMETIK !
              POCO the Puppet can do anything
              If SOMEBODY ELSE ~ pulls the STRING !

              That's the problem with being a Puppet ~ MICHAEL
              It's the attitude of the STRING PULLERS
              Thanks for your CARE 'n SHARE ~ BRIAN

              • Michael Edwards

                Yes know the Goose Fair - I used to work in Nottingham many years ago - thanks Brian.

                • BRIAN & ANGELA

                  Thanks Michael ~ I did some work @ Nottingham University ~ A great City ~ Southern Affluence and Northern Character ~ Best of both Worlds and they do say the Classiest Girls in the UK ! The GOOSE FAIR is a real anachronism ~ Travelling Fairs & Circus' seem to be a Dying Breed ~ I love carousels ~ may [ost a poem on one this week ! Yours BRIAN ~ At heart I'm an Edwardian like my Granddad not an Elizabethan (the FIRST !) like ORCHI !

                • Tony36

                  Love them both

                • Accidental Poet

                  A universe in itself
                  is the mind of an artist
                  Where the imagination goes
                  the pen will follow farthest

                  • Michael Edwards

                    Thanks AP and love your little verse.

                    • Accidental Poet

                      Well, I had the notion that it applies well here. ; )

                    • ron parrish aka wordman

                      loved the feel of this michael

                    • Laura🌻

                      Michael,
                      Brief but powerful...
                      A superb write and artwork!
                      CICATRICE...the scar left
                      from the silent suffering
                      of a manipulated marionette!



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