Saltarello Shadows
Saltarello shadows
breach sharpened daylight
shimmying along
delineated by squandered theatrics
shortchanged dreams
freed from flesh prisons
movement forged by cane-less memory
invigorated by lust’s commemorations
a semblance of youth, replayed
on screen of wide clapboards
as euphonious echoes linger
a last curtain call
in intercepted sunshine
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© ~ Randy Bell ~ 2013
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Manicddaily, a/k/a Karin Gustafson whose tending the bar today
@ dVerse Poet’s Pub
has prompted us with ” bright shadow “
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Feb 02, 2013 @ 15:57:20
Hi Randy = it is so interesting to think of our shadows freed from us weigher-downers. A very cool subject for your poem, and works really well. k.
Feb 02, 2013 @ 15:59:08
Thanks k, Great Prompt !!!
Feb 02, 2013 @ 16:09:25
this is really cool…love the pic and your take on the theme… freed from flesh prisons.. able to dance…again… the shadow as a shadow of the mind, not body…really cool
Feb 02, 2013 @ 16:13:37
a last curtain call…smiles…i wonder at what our shadows might get into if not teathered to us…perhaps fulfil some of those dreams we failed to chase….
Feb 02, 2013 @ 16:20:24
Nice. I really like how you paint the picture with your words. Beautifully done.
Feb 02, 2013 @ 16:31:36
Clever use of light and shadows ~ I specially like curtains calls and intercepted sunshine ~
Feb 02, 2013 @ 18:04:52
wonderful title and dance of the shadows…life as a stage..;)
Feb 02, 2013 @ 18:11:51
…the accompanying photo saddened me for a moment… and then there is this shortchanged dreams…freed from flesh prisons…a semblance of youth replayed… & a last curtain call…ah, i can only sigh… great touches..
Feb 02, 2013 @ 18:55:34
Even the shadows of sweet memories are sweet, and light on the palette as ‘intercepted sunshine’
Feb 02, 2013 @ 20:51:51
Love this! Wonderful write!
Feb 02, 2013 @ 22:40:42
intercepted sunshine *smiles* this is really cool – love the pic as well
Feb 03, 2013 @ 07:37:40
Funny, I thought of the same image but couldn’t remember where I’d seen it and went somewhere else. Love the way you brought it into words. Shimmying along does deserve its own line.
Feb 03, 2013 @ 14:14:03
as usual, so many lines that i like here, i can’t quote them all. this is sooo poetic
hades gate
Feb 03, 2013 @ 19:15:19
‘daylight shimmying along’ is really wonderful. ‘flesh prisons’ also grabs me… you’ve captured some fresh images in this poem, and your last two lines sum it up quite nicely.
Feb 04, 2013 @ 01:18:41
brilliant! especially love the final two lines!
Feb 04, 2013 @ 09:21:15
or the child within us all writ large =)
Feb 04, 2013 @ 21:55:33
Excellent, Randy! Love the way you used the ‘s’ sounds in this poem! Love ‘salterello shadows’ and how those words roll off my tongue!
Feb 04, 2013 @ 23:36:25
A shadow’s freedom….what a unique thought…
Feb 04, 2013 @ 23:49:17
Beautiful musical and sibilant vision of shadow as more real in a way than the figures that block the sun to make them. Both negative (“delineated by squandered theatrics / shortchanged dreams . . .”) and positive (“freed from flesh prisons” and “cane-less memory / invigorated by lust’s commemorations / a semblance of youth, replayed . . . “), their resolution into one-last curtain call is lovely.
Feb 05, 2013 @ 06:17:24
I remember that photo! It was a great one for inspiration as I recall. You poem is so beautifully tactile and delicious. Amazing piece of work!
Feb 08, 2013 @ 23:02:31
I love this, Randy, particularly, `forged by cane-less memory.