The Monologue of Magdalena from Herzegovina
(A soothing female voice whispers)
O Hear me
Magdalena from Herzegovina
Charlatans abound
You know
Some say poetry is like a form of dark craft because music and poetry
Are at their baseline
spells that make intrigued eyes glow
But if you look deep into a King James
Magic too flows
Moses parting some sea
As someone special walked on water
Helping a blind Bartimaeus to see
So if that's not magic too using words that spells
Or even a selection of Letters
Let us not forget turning a little water into wine
With words that rhyme
For poetry
Stripped back
Makes its soft or hard demands and you'll listen
With wild eyes that will unconsciously glisten
For a real poet knows
You can't bargain with it
When you enter its Colosseum
Its arena
For try as you must
You have to trust and go where it flows
For you can't fight it
Not if it has you in its tight grip
Like the mythical sea monster
Scylla
Who once terrorized Odyssey's ship
When he entered the Strait of Messina
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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