Brexit

Found poetry is created by lifting words or phrases from other sources and reframing them. And that's what I've done this week. My source being Elson's Pocket Music Dictionary published in 1909.

I, also, feel this week's poem is appropriate since it's coming to you from London.



Brexit


The Conductor holds forth
with her latest score created
within the rules of harmony.

The movement, a fundamental
fugue, requires brilliant execution.

Discord intrudes. Five voices
in close relation clash
with a counterpoint in four parts.

The musicians orchestrate stops
as the Maestro stresses an interpretation
played from the EU songbook.

But her leitmotif, a theme
without variation, remains
over-sung by runs of dissonance.

Full dress rehearsals,
and the coda not yet arranged.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor