Rock Opera

Photographer - Tobi Brun

Rock Opera

Stage stained with sweat and blood,
living artifacts of shows gone by,
crackling chords, blazing strings,
strange power and poise.

Shouting voices on the night air...
Look upon us and raise a light.
We won't be tame.
We won't be bound.

We are crowned with turbo halos,
roaring down back highways
at 120 hot miles per hour.

Our swinging muse arrives,
draped in bell bottoms,
stepping off the night train,
stomping in the vineyard.

The Dionysian crowd roar
thrusts deeply into Aphrodite,
as she chokes them deeply
into ecstasy at death's door.

Lewd carriage ride to change,
blaring harbinger,
rock n'roll trip to freedom,
a world tilting union
of the masses’ battle drums
and revolution's chosen attack.

William Mullin’s poetry, short stories, and guest blog articles have appeared in Half Tones to Jubilee, Riverwind, REAL: The Journal of Liberal Arts, Limestone, Cyclamens and Swords Magazine, Scrittura Magazine, California Quarterly, Off the Coast, On the Veranda, Orange Coast Review, Rune Bear, Rye Whiskey Review, Salmon Creek Journal, Ripples in Space, State of Matter, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Theme Park Magazine, Local Wolves Magazine, Startup Nation, Submittable's Guest Blog, and the Institute of Internal Communication's Guest Blog. His novella Miller's Ridge is available from World Castle Publishing. His novella Darius Dimension and the Seventh Pillar of Elpis is available from Alien Buddha Press.