New Twitter Poems by Chris McInnes

THESE ARE 'TWITTER' POEMS - exactly 140 characters long or composed of verses exactly 140 characters long.

They are composed on the subject of Joe McElderry, who was recently stranded on Cyprus due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud


'How volcanic ash happens'

Sweet-soaring McElderry melodies,
Cold from the stratosphere,
Pour onto a listener’s molten heart
And explode in a billion
Singing Joedrops


Joe-cello'd melody

Summitrushing moonbrushing
Breezelaughing songdancing
Cloudskipping starkissing
Mountaintop joysurfing
Ecstasy skyloving
Joe-cello’d melody


The melody lingers on

On Cyprus blessed isle in azure sea
Joe wanders through the sandy groves
Singing notes so beautiful the wood nymphs
Cry to see them die away

From heaven Zeus looks kindly down
And compassionately reaching
Earthwards drapes the notes on lemon boughs
Like golden flowers in the sun

So now though Joe is long departed
When the gentle zephyr shakes the trees in Kourion
The happy nymphs bathe in showers of mcelderry blossom



Song of Cyprus

Kourion you revel languidly in your beatitude
Your golden temple mute witness
To the music of loveliness
That turns men, ecstatic, into gods

In your melody scented groves
Tune-crazed lilacs roll their heads
In time to a heat shimmy of quavers
Dancing heavenwards on zephyrs of song

For there wanders an enchanted boy
Singing a hymn of such beauty
That a Falcon hovers still, trance-enrobed,
On its sky caressing harmonies



Chris McInnes

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