Monday, April 24, 2006

The Dance to the Music of Time
By Don Iannone

They dance
as though
time were real.
They dance
pretending
they had time.
Around
and around
they go
in vicious circles,
like those spun
by the make-believe gods
they dance to honor.

The Dance to the Music of Time
Painting by Nicolas Poussin

4 comments:

Dan said...

Wow! Good ones, Don. We are all indebted to you.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Thanks Dan. Never a debt in my book. Only mutual respect and giving to each other.

The images help to give focus to the poems. The question is will they stand in a book without the images to depend upon?

Dan said...

Of course. The imagery needs no image.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

And do we need a mirror, of any sort, to see who we really are?

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