Challenge
Choose between the following titles\headings to write a poem:
(A.) The wolf's cry.
(B.) Dragon's tail.
(C.) Lady of the Opera.
Write a poem in any form using either one of the listed challenge prompt headings/titles.
The Lady of the Opera
One step.
Two steps.
Angry pointing.
Silent girl in stage. Scared and trying to hide.
The Queen has her
coloratura passage.
A glorious high F.
But the Queen of the night sounds too cheerful!
She is singing about
Death and curses.
Abandoning and cursing her daughter forever if she does not kill
a man.
Midnight blue, the music swirls around me
as the soprano continues to sing the melisma
leading into another vicious rant.
Mesmerizing. I am lost in orange and yellow.
The queen transcends her voice to the heavens.
The queen transcends her voice to Heaven though she does not belong there.
Too evil.
I always forget that the
benevolent, sweet Lady of the Opera is my wife.
Even if she's the Queen for a night or two.