Pantomime Madness in Spring (poem)

by Stephen J Frankenberry

A dVerse Poets prompt from Grace for exploring some “Magical Realism”, blending the ordinary with the extraordinary, placing magical or fantastical elements into a realistic, yet grounded, setting.

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Pantomime Madness in Spring

I curse and I sign

some nonsensical finger pantomime

of guessed import

asking myself to ask myself if I am losing my mind

(don’t tell your friends or family or enemies to then confirm

or yourself

for that matter

for any matter

at any time

to maybe infirm)

some swiped in air construct

that scatters symbols I saw maybe movie many once

or numerous too book look in one bulging volume

but thin for dunce

enough

to comprehend

found in dances and trances and drinks of history

family

in the field or wood or street

or square

all bursting, blurting, bustling, blustering

“you are crazy”

into dream’s fractured wholes

repeating

holes

with made up symboled twist musts

of fingers

to ward off gists only you seem to

get

well

but

not well enough

git

now

it’s cold

.

But you asked of me, of little sprites, of flower winged mites

and whisperers

whispering between trees

asked of all me’s to explain what went bump

what went thump

in the cold stark of winter

what bursted or blurted or bustled or blustered

what silenced loud to still

find

what was lost

just out of in under around the corner of your extra nesting eye

.

I did

I apologize

but will you will with me

bump and thump

and burst and blurt or bustle or bluster

and loud silence still

night

heal fractures that come to light

only then

soothe in day

through flowered walks, down path’s of plenty

scents of perfumed many

it is Spring again

after all

have you seen?

have you been?

to help me entertain what I don’t know and how lost lost lost and how it came

to be?

.

Of course of course

(quite pretty)

and of course

I am your Sprite after all

in Spring

and all things

To help explain

.

I curse and I sign

some nonsensical pantomime

but comforting

now

in

what I still hold mine

warmer in mind

14 thoughts on “Pantomime Madness in Spring (poem)”

  1. Hold on tight to that, as if it had a Pirates logo all over it!

    I loved your kind comment on mine, especially “no one noticed.” That got me in the feels.

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      1. It’s among your best in my opinion and you’ve written lots of great ones. Submit it for the 2025 Anthology maybe? I’d love to see it there.

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      2. Well thank ya again! I definitely am considering a few things to submit and this was on my list but, well, with this added thumbs up from you? Yes it will be one of them. I’m assuming, of course, that you have your own list of your own things to submit? The Anthology NEEDS to have one of your pieces.

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