Sue Mason Poet Etheree

A Performance

Pain
brings a
momentous
performance by
the introduction
of excruciating
dancing between nerve endings
followed by tourniquet twisting
when muscles scream out a crescendo
and the mind closes the curtain on pain.

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Funom Makama February 28, 2014 at 11:21 AM Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for making my day. I have found it pleasurable to always begin the weekend with Poetrysoup because poets like you and poems like this do not disappoint. Have a lovely weekend

Carol Sunshine Brown January 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM Wishing you would grace us with some new poetry soon. You are missed Sue. Love, Carol

Andrea Dietrich January 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM wow,it's quite a performance all right and one i am so happy to miss if i can. This is great etheree , Sue. Where are you?

Duncan Chappell November 24, 2010 at 5:59 PM wow excellent write my friend thank you for sharing

Sami Al-Khalili August 20, 2010 at 12:26 AM No pain no gain? Maybe. A write as thought-provoking it is, a write that I am still reading over and over again. A write written with greatness. Love, Sami.

August 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM Good use of this challenging form to show the sacrifice behind the performance. Thank you for sharing your talent with us and for your kind comment. Keep on writing! Karen

Poet Destroyer A August 1, 2010 at 4:12 AM nice form of etheree,, enjoyed your write..P.D.

Dr.Ram Mehta July 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM Feeling of pain nicely penned, sue