Poetry Post: Puckish

[minoanmiss]

Two poem posts!

‘My Mistress With A Monster Is In Love’

Spoken by Puck, Act 3, Scene 2

My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter’d in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass’s nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o’er and o’er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.



Tonight I was honored to watch the Esh Circus Arts Student Show. (*waves to RK*) One performer perfectly performed this speech while climbing and spinning in air, which was amazing, while three others danced evocatively to "Quiet". I may post more of the songs perfomed to yet.

Comments

[amaebi]

Ooooooh.

[acelightning73]

In recent years, I have seen a lot of YouTube videos featuring young Russian children who are being trained as figure skaters. And now I see a lot of circus acrobatic acts that seem to be part of a similar "farm system" The kids are all very good, and show the potential for becoming even better. These acts already appear on "FITB's Got Talent", and Cirque de Soleil has to get their acrobats from somewhere.

Aerial acts with silks are getting a lot of notice. When the girl climbing and sliding on the silks is only 11 years old, the act is pretty attention-getting.

[rachelkg]

At 47 I'm a senior citizen, circus-wise, and I'll never be a pro -- too slow and heavy and injury-prone. But there's a lot of scope for expressive movement there anyway.

[acelightning73]

I am neither athletic nor agile enough for acrobatics. But there are a lot of ways human beings can move gracefully and "trick gravity" into not making them fall. I consider acrobatics a form of dance, making pretty patterns with one's body. And I understand why the Russians are scouring their countryside for athletically gifted children, who can swing on the trapeze, or do a quadruple jump on skates, and slither up and down a long silk scarf hanging from the ceiling.Get 'em while they're young.

[minoanmiss]

What you can do is spectacuSr. And you look graceful and gorgeous doing it

Sand that was one of the many many aspects I loved about the show. The performers had a range of sizes and clearly went for powe over slenderness. I was amaze

[acelightning73]

If you learn sign language, you can sing with your hands!

[hitchhiker]

which reminds me, have you read "puck of pook's hill"? if not i highly recommend it!