we waded
tall grass and prickly sedge
wet thickets thick and dark
as memory
of Nubian maidens’ legs
the murky moon
a ghost-grey
and silver schooner
raced past competing clouds
through choppy Sargasso
canopy into open sky
simultaneously as
we stumbled
into a clearing
a breath-catching break
in the undergrowth
winged-insect string
and woodwind orchestras
hummed
bowed and blew their high-pitched
high-strung Wagnerian warhorses
fearsome irksome folksongs
of impending aggravation
stunted tree limbs
with winged trunks
and stilt roots stretched
supplicant silhouettes shifted
sinister shapes like childhood clouds
sleepless stealthy apparitions
and trudged on stomped on
trudged on stomped on
marching merging melting
marching merging melting
marching merging melding
into night’s misty shadows
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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