Christine Tsen 

Ambition: Untamed

I want to sing, but
don’t sorrow stifles tunes
I want to dance within
each soft exploding blossom
Leave my pollen covered toes
bold loving bold and wild

Let racing rats run their course
The gold ring isn’t love
Ah but it is a waste
I know there is something greater
deeper, within anonymity
and why try to show the world a thing
when it doesn’t matter?

See the way the honeysuckle
preached ambition to the tree
where the bird that matters in the first place
sings of bold on thistles even
through feathers of day, talons of night.




Christine Tsen is a cellist and chamber musician performing throughout New England. She attended Eastman School and the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a published musician and poet. Her poems are or will be in The Bark, Eunoia Review, Poetic Pinup Review, and Utmost Christian among others.  In her experience so much of poetry feels like music, and music like poetry ~ and to her one lights up the other! More: www.ChristineThomasTsen.com

 


Return to September 2012 Edition