Chorus In A Night! Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Chorus In A Night!



Chorus,
Chorus in a night!

the chorus is of ghosts!
but
interspersed there be
Sileni, fauns, nymphs
hedgehogs, squirrel, rat,
lizard and toad and
more.

blessed when a chorus
sings
there's beauty
here
it came from afar
to stay.

o la la la
derime tinki fa
herem de mata
siglet de sartar
comber de manhar!
o la la la
beri tele kale
de findi pale!
ulem ghati solen
aster de fi parten.
o la la la la.

sings
so the chorus
ghosts included.

rain
starts to drizzle
asphalt is starting
to be wetted!
time! time!
time passes
open your mouth
from heaven fall
night-dews!

o la la la
derime tinki fa
herem de mata
siglet de sartar
comber de manhar!
o la la la
beri tele kale
de findi pale!
ulem ghati solen
aster de fi parten.
o la la la la.

sleep,
sleep, village small
amongst the mountains
low
not snow peaked.

o la la la
derime tinki fa
herem de mata
siglet de sartar
comber de manhar!
o la la la
beri tele kale
de findi pale!
ulem ghati solen
aster de fi parten.
o la la la la.

Come! do what do!
dawn will soon be
over!

Monday, December 19, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: darkness,moon,morning,night,pain,song,village,wind,words
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 20 December 2016

I like this poem a lot. The movement of the poem across the stanzas is in itself intriquing: You start with ghosts, a familiar trope in your poems and then list animals, many of them each species with a name, but ghosts are just ghosts - no dfferentiation. You begin the animal list low in the hierarchy and it goes even lower: rats, lizards, toads you could almost call them disgusting animals, no noble horse, or fierce tiger, or even stolid cow - these cre are not the ones we humans idealize. Between ghosts and animals I expected human beings. But instead - mythic creatures are in the middle. I like this stage setting of your nocturnal beastiary, and the second half has a kind of orphic voice (whose?) who summons these diverse night creatures and leads them in a song. I did not expect that volta but I like it: it suggests a unity among these creatures, probably not of purpose but of residence. Do you know the mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli? Great singer, alluring woman. I'm going to engage her to sing your refrain: She'll feature it in her next album! !

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