Poems by David Subacchi
A Secret Revealed
They asked who you were
But I didn’t know;
A classical beauty
Sculpted in white
Looking down
Over the pool.
For a while we swapped
Names of ancient gods
Half remembered
From school days,
But there was no agreement;
The sun burned
Until everyone
Entered the water
To cool off;
Then a bather
Hurled a beach ball
Accidentally striking you
So you spun around
As if in disgust
At your secret revealed;
A heavenly body
Made of plastic
Like everything else today.
Ascension
The priest smiled lifting his eyes
As if witnessing the event,
‘They must have seen
The soles of his feet rising’
He remarked, ‘and thought
That’s it then,
But it wasn’t’.
‘Life isn’t simple
For most of us,
There’s always
Something or other
To complicate matters,
Some follow up action
We need to take.
People don’t disappear
Into clouds
For no reason,
The challenges
Are to discover
What he meant
And why he went’.
Clouds of Existence
She tells you what the weather was
During the night, when you were asleep,
What time it rained and when it stopped,
The wind conditions snow and hail,
Or warmer spells, the raised temperature
And for how long, when it thundered,
When there was lightning,
Where it struck and how many times;
She can tell you all this
Although she says she sleeps well.
So you think maybe she dreamt it all
But you dare not whisper so,
She has an answer for everything
And she knows the difference
Between dreams and storms,
Between fantasies and heatwaves,
She remembers every vision,
Every ecstasy, every nightmare,
She recounts them in detail
Seeking your interpretation.
But you just listen silently
For your sleep is a heavy blanket
Of anaesthetic darkness
Smothering all recollection,
Undisturbed by weather conditions
And your dreams are brief,
Best not spoken of in polite company;
Unlike her you are not amongst those
Who have access to higher worlds
Who pierce the very clouds of existence.
David Subacchi lives in Wales (UK) where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University of Liverpool. He has four published collections of his English Language poetry and one in Welsh.
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