Spatial and Colour Concepts
The banging of the drum announced his coming
The comic clumsy Petruska
and his theme echoed through the streets
with laughter and song.
Through dark alleyways where dubious deeds were done
and down parks where lovers wondered hand by hand.
Over docks where laborers worked heartily - Panting,
and into the sky where birds looked down - Chirping.
'Round memorials of stone which blazed gloriously
in solemn sadness, showing names of those fallen.
men long forgotten, decades ago.
Vibrant air glittered with glitter
Flashes of light from lights
flung over curious heads
free and fun,
and frivolous folly of the fair.
Until further and further, fair flew yonder.
Echo's of fun beat the cooling air.
Slow breeze blew bare branches
anonymous sound whispering in air
and ignorantly, a single wonderer wondered back
with sound echoing empty chasm
Grey and dull.
Life stood still. Time moved forward.
And far off blue became further black.
The silvery twinkle of newborn star,
the rustling of leaves in the dark.
The wind picked up - chilled cold.
The depths of space spun slowly onward.
His theme drifted eternally upward.
Trent Hopkinson.12/4/00