“in music out of sight”
Korean courts heard music long ago
And watched silk dancing, swirrrrrƏls of silk sleeves.
These musics and these patterns were aglow
In royal eyes and ears beneath tiled eaves
Of palaces but now the motions, notes,
And melodies are so far gone that eyes
And ears will never see them. Silence floats
Forever. Academics and the wise
Will never resurrect them from their tombs
Of lost obscurity. Our eyes and ears
Will never be inside those royal rooms,
Or hear those sweetnessses, or see those spheres
Of gilded brass that sway from earlobes in
The dance and see them spinnning, spinnnning, spinnnnnnn.
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2021 | CO, KO, MU, SI |