"My Body Harmonic" (An original poem inspired by “The Girl and the Pendulum”)steemCreated with Sketch.

in poetry •  7 years ago 


A poem describing Cassandra's thoughts as she stares at the swinging pendulum during her wait for Cattrell to visit.

My Body Harmonic

Sound, it plays my body rhythmic --

Tones reveal my soul.
Vibrations weave
the song of life
that meters present
or future.

Oscillations in
my fourth harmonic
lead to joyous rhapsody.
And, fear
the dirge
a lifeless plunge
cured by null
but timpani.

If love is carried
over waves,
and should the people
gather close --
The music of
my lifetime, I hope
shall sing a song,
a soul.

Image Credit: Geralt



"The Girl and the Pendulum" is an 18-part future-noir science fiction story about a a private investigator's search for a missing android. How can a man who searches for missing women find lost artificial intelligence? I welcome feedback on this story about a man and his difficult case in a post-war, post collapse world.

Read the full story:
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part Seven | Part Eight | Part Nine | Part Ten | Part Eleven | Part Twelve | Part Thirteen | Part Fourteen | Part Fifteen | Part Sixteen | Part Sixteen | Part Seventeen | Part Eighteen

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Well, i haven't read much about this story of the girl and pendulum. But the poetry is really good. I enjoyed going through for the 4th time I'll get a copy soon..winks..

Four times! I'm humbled! :D Hope you enjoy my other work!

looks like i have some reading to do :)

Hahah that is a great way of putting it! Thanks for dropping by!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

The poem was excellent! It has quite a nice flow to it, reading it silently in my head :) I'll come back and check out "The Girl and the Pendulum" at a more reasonable hour :P

I tried to make it flow out in waves! :)

nice poerty . keep your best job :)

thank you for your comment!

WOW!! looking for your next post :)

Great post!

Thanks!!