THE INNER LIFE of STATUES/ Poetry Potluck #19



This week's Poetry Potluck #19, presents the theme of Rules, Regulations, and Laws..make of it what you wish! Let's have some order here!!

THE INNER LIFE OF STATUES

A winged female, yellow, ish,

with fragments of cinnabar red

inlaid across her belly,

once a prized belt of virginity,

now a memory of sacrifice

chiseled into her ancient mind,

almost touches the half

human creature beside her,

a satyr in his early days,

 

not quite as tall

as the guard in the doorway.

Both spit out words

that float like dust mites,

mistaking the guard for a God.

Their hope is to impose

some dignity in the marble hall,

where shifting groups prance through,

clicking along like castanets.

Kind God, sir,

we petition you to hang

a fresco above our heads

to clearly spell out

and impose the rule

of hushed reverence,

in our hallowed wing

of the museum.

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