' ' ' ' Heaven's Theatrics Poem by Dónall Dempsey

' ' ' ' Heaven's Theatrics

Rating: 2.7


Angel gazes
heavenward

unable
to ascend.

Its marble wings
shattered at its feet

a carved tear
unable to fall further.

Lichen eating
into the name

cut in stone

translating it
into hieroglyph

that beggars being
deciphered.

God walks past
in thunder & lightning

using the storm
as a disguise.

Now only
a celebrity

uneager
to be

recognised.

The dead
(dead as Queen Victoria)

are not
amused

turn
in their graves.

They’ve seen it all before

unimpressed with
Heaven’s Theatrics.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Martin Swords 11 June 2009

Dónall... We were always told that thunder was angels rolling Gods barrells around. That's what happens when there's a cooper in the family! Slán

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Saadat Tahir 10 June 2009

vernal feral and intense...almost heard the marble angel crash to dash politicallly correct.... dont know poetry...yes done very well cheers an ten

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Colin J... 10 June 2009

I was in that cemetery with the thunder and lightening... Superb... Colin J...

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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