compensating closeness
with another
anonymity
of amorous affirmation
massive muscled
exhilaration
exhaled to
floodlights and
rhythmic beats
that rip my heartbeats
raw
hands go:
clap clap clap
stagedived closures burning

Marian inspire us with the music of Freddie Mercury at toads. somehow I tried to put myself in his shoes and trying to imagine the ambiguity of feeling he might have felt up there on the stage.
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November 14, 2014
Heartbeats ripped raw by this poem also. Thank you.
nice, Bjorn. beautiful.
interesting, i think i expect form poetry when i visit you. i think this is appropriately not that.
love that photo of Freddie. gosh this whole exercise is making me extremely ferklempt. 🙂
I think you embodied that feeling well, Bjorn…love the use of, “raw.”
Wow, excellent sound. What a pleasure to read aloud.
This feels like the exhilaration one feels when connected to artist, stage, and music…amazing write!
Bjorn, Good expression of the performers experience. Well written. 🙂 — Suzanne
The idea if muscled exhilaration exhaled to floodlights seemed an especially vivid image for a performer. K.
Not easy to capture that energy in words but you have conveyed a sense of stage presence here with your terse lines. Great response.
Compensation it was. When our soul happy, can we even stop it?… ~ Painful with 3D reality… ~ Vivid expression.