D.K. McKenzie—Warwick poet, pianist, and founder of The Poe Underground, a spoken word and music project—plays an original piano composition under his recording of Meeting at Night by Robert Browning and Honeymoon and an unnamed poem by D.K. McKenzie.
Meeting at Night
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Honeymoon
A splash of rain as you dash for cover
into the maze
into the gauntlet of societies' (razor) blades
All of a sudden and suddenly
monstrous jealousy knocks loud
without warrant or justice
Jealousy arrives on time (early)
to mangle the moon's glorious radiance
A total and complete disruption of a honeymoon
(unnamed)
With poetry as in life you can say a lot using silence
The spaces that fill in time
the words that aren't spoken say much
truly speaking volumes
Silence can be a loud crack of thunder in reverse
a sucking, reversing, volume
that shifts the air
that is felt in the soul and in the heart
Silence can be a killer in fact
Sometimes when we are silent we are the ones doing the killing
Watch D.K. create his keyboard solos for Meeting at Night, Honeymoon, and his unnamed poem.
Check out The Poe Underground.
