Notes About The Poem
This poem was triggered by the contest 'Final Showdown', but of course, my lines do not rhyme.
In Samuel Becket's play 'Waiting for Godot' the later never appears. Or does he?
When I talk about 'Arche-Midas', this is not a misspelt Archimedes (who shouted Eureka in the bathtub, when he had solved an important mathematical problem).
I am referring to archetypes and the Midas touch (he who wished for everything turning into gold, which then included his food and his water.)
A show down in poker is when a player lays down his cards.
Enoy the poem, if you wishe to.
Slow Frown
Slow Frown
The curtain is down the show has found its final vibrant glow
Lights out minds provoked and the audience is still waiting for
Godot
He arrives which is a surprise and yet he hangs from the ceiling in
A show-down of souls while a vacant spectator shouts his Eureka to
Arche-Midas
The last act touched him deeply and types of paradigm refute what is
Not meant to unravel as everything turned into gold’s wicked curse of
Obscurity
Absurd a theatre of obtuse legends finds its angles and perspective
As observers compare their bits in the lavatory after the performance’s
Show down
Slowly seeds germinate take their path to freedom in lonely pursuit
‘Am I the only one who got the point of reverence' in meaningful
Pointlessness
While revellers ponder about the poignancy of washing their hands
Cleaning their thoughts with sugar soap from Becket’s arsenal in
Vanity
A jester smiles frowns slowly at existential essence when he throws
A pack of cards down onto empty rows randomly aligned on baseless
Foundations
Sometimes we all miss the grimaced façade sheltering the clown’s
Valid conclusions but the spectacle continues not down but out of
Nowhere
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2018
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