When you see a performance
That’s live, on a stage,
If you’re lucky, the show
With your mind will engage.
When the dialogue’s snappy,
The scenery great,
With costumes and dancing
And music first-rate…
You’ll tell all your friends
To buy tickets real fast,
Before there’s a change
In this prominent cast.
Since when there’s a performer
Who brings down the house,
You feel privileged to see her
(And so does your spouse).
Just witnessing that
Will remain in your mind
Long after you’ve left
Other viewings behind.
So to Audra McDonald,
In “Gypsy” right now,
Your Rose will live on
Well beyond your last bow.
Categories:
viewings, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Now we are electric, and dying to be
imprinted onto whiteness.
We long to see that dark ink of our minds.
Some call all this talk
deathbed scenes torn from our youth,
some say nothing at all but tap
to unwrap a breathless thought.
Now we are this tap-tapping
on the lids of space-boards -
open casket viewings, penny-weight eyes
rising to world where life
can be rehearsed again.
Going to the light,
a framed light, an asking light,
where words wait to be buried again
into a blind humming ether.
Categories:
viewings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Today
By: Tom Wright
10-3-2019
Today is a curtain,
concealing yesterday’s doings.
These memories are subject,
to selective re-viewings.
They’re held in a lock box,
that only we can envision.
A review only file,
not subject to revision.
Many things we’d change,
if it lay in our power.
Early life things,
now provoking us to glower.
But time, once expired,
never returns again.
I’m immersed in thought,
that it was better back then.
Categories:
viewings, age, change, life,
Form: Lyric
We move to the city with all its buildings
Miss the country with all the viewings
The crisp mornings and the fresh air
A beautiful feeling you can always bear
To live in a house with all of its charm
We sit on the verandah, arm in arm
Watching the sunset, it is all so beautiful
Getting the feeling that everything is so wonderful
Walk through the bush which end at lookouts
Staring into space and say there are no doubts
With two people together everything is so peaceful
A love that is blissful and so meaningful
As we lie in front of the fire
Being with the one that you desire
Looking at each other saying, "I love you"
Sharing the feeling and everything shines through
Categories:
viewings, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love,
Form: I do not know?