Ikkyu (1394- 1481)
Ikkyu was a 15th century Japanese monk and poet, known for his eccentricity and Iconoclasm. Read the poems that are the prompt for my post for letter I here.
Cat at the Opera
In the
Cairo Opera House
a cat stole
in to listen to
the echoes
of music and applause;
he got as
far as the entrance hall.
The polished
concierges knew
to wilt a
cat with lifted brows,
with the
merest flick of fingernail.
None of the
patrons saw it done
as nothing
untoward ensued
the
slightest signals between doormen
the feline
fobbed off and turned back
the whole of
the performance smooth.
Sound ear, a certain depth of attention
not quite
the prerogative of cats.
The wind
paints a feathered tree
in subtle
inks the world ignores;
cars on
Ring Road, rapidity,
profit and
loss, frenzied and strange
the complexity
of failures.
Cats can’t
have echoes just for free!
even if the
sound’s beyond our range.
Should cats/pets be allowed into live performances? :)
What about young children?
What about young children?
Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2015
I love your theme...and your poetry! It's making me want to get back into writing it myself! :) (And I even tried my hand at poetry, for my I post. It's not very good. But...I tried.)
ReplyDeleteRocking theme :D I'll keep coming back to see what else you have in store for us...
ReplyDeleteGood point! If the kids can come in, so should the pets.
ReplyDeleteThat was a fun poem. I don't think there's anything wrong with having cats in live performances. :)
ReplyDeleteAnother great post! Thank you for this theme - I'm so enjoying it
ReplyDeletelovely and soulful lines dear... :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely bring the cats. They adore being included even if they don't show it.
ReplyDeleteHi Nila - sadly the health aspects come in .. who knows what would happen .. we need to go back to Shakespeare's day and earth floors etc ..
ReplyDeleteBut I think a balance needs to be struck .. but I'd love a story of a cat visiting various venues and experiencing 'our world' ... and then them telling us about their experiences in our venues ...
Cheers Hilary
Nice one. .. It is good to visit your blog and carry away information about poets I did not know before.
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