1.
We don’t know starlight
so long here in the dark
Stay—the labyrinth is safe
quite safe! The monster gone
long and long ago
I didn’t mean to say We
I am quite alone
2.
I follow the thread of her voice
her singing in earth-heart
how unlike the glass-chime
grinding of the spheres
in my clockwork daylight
more like breath of stardust
life-ember hum
3.
The labyrinth is endless
and no cheating death
The thread of her voice
all stardust echoes stilled
The monster is still here
rumbling, low and long
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i like how you have partitioned it.. and as it happens most of the time, the last stanza is a master stroke! ***
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Aw, thank you! I did have a fourth stanza, but I just wasn’t feeling like it belonged. 🙂
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Oh my–I love this one, too. The whole mythology theme–and the singing, stars, and that monster still here at the end. Wow!
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Thank you. Always more to explore where caves are concerned…
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Yes, indeed!
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The ambiguity is wonderfully mysterious. Lots of different images to choose from. (K)
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Ha, it’s true I was coming at this one from many directions…
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Really wonderful!
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Thank you!
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Gave me the shivers. Labyrinths and star music and poor Ariadne at the end of her piece of string. Wonderful!
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Shivers are good!
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How is it we think so alike? I am all about living in caves these days. Some posts coming on that.
This is lovely — are you thinking of Ariadne? That is what came to my mind reading. I love what you have done with echoes of thoughts bouncing around – kind of like echoes of sound in a cave. Really nice.
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Yes, caves!!
I was thinking of Ariadne, at least on some level, and wanting to play with that. And all kinds of other cave-y things. 🙂
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Something tomorrow, but from a very different angle. I think I am daring to start another series …
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Yes, series. More, please. 🙂
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This takes my breath away. Truly a masterpiece. One of those poems that makes me think I should give up writing poems and just read yours. I love the voice, the switching of directions and speeds at the end of the first stanza – almost intimate, as though the speaker drops some pretence and really speaks from the heart. I read the monster as that dark place in everyone’s inner core – self doubt or worse. Really powerful!
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Thank you. ❤ NO!! Thank you. Ooh, I like that. Thank you.
But seriously, this comment is right now being tucked away in my happy file. Such a glow to get this kind of feedback, especially when I feel a piece has fallen together well. 🙂 Super appreciated.
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