Arise! Oh dear soul, the night is over.The stormy seas have lost their power,The lark ascending beholds green pastures.Morning calls, incense rises from the bower.This wandering heart has found her shelter.Arise! Oh dear soul, the night is over.Hear! Dreams of darkness never would conquera soul wholly given to her Maker.The lark ascending beholds green pastureswhereContinue reading “MEDITATION ON MEDITATION FROM THAIS”
Category Archives: Music
AUTUMN DANCE (A Quadrille)
On butterfly wings and chariots pulled by swans fairies gather for an autumn dance How tree limbs creak under the weight of fairies picking leaves to adorn their skirts Dressed in colors they flirt with the wind graceful and radiant to the very end. “Creak” is the word this week for DVerse Poets’ Pub’s QuadrilleContinue reading “AUTUMN DANCE (A Quadrille)”
A MOTHER’S NIGHT
My broom dances to Yoyo Ma bowing a Bach prelude Dust and crumb puff and twirl sensing my happy mood With kids asleep, the night is mine the night is mine alone and I will dance and I will sing my broom as microphone Yoyo Ma will fiddle and bow he’ll fiddle all night longContinue reading “A MOTHER’S NIGHT”
ON THE HEELS OF MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (a Glosa)
“Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship My senses have been stripped My hands can’t feel to grip My toes too numb to step” ~ from Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan My heart lies in the wasteland shattered into pieces just like the promises my idols used to make IContinue reading “ON THE HEELS OF MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (a Glosa)”
CELLO CARESS
When I run empty I fill up with music the one where the cello sings and caresses my spirit with its voice low and sonorous gently calling pieces of me to life and lifting me up tenderly like a lover holding me by my hands moving me across the room by a slow dance towardsContinue reading “CELLO CARESS”
MUSIC MAN (for WPC: ADMIRATION)
If I could stand before the world coax music out of reeds not be bothered about the crowd who cares not for the gift I give I am brave If I could handle the scorn that the world inspires within calm down the raging storm let out from my wounds a healing song IContinue reading “MUSIC MAN (for WPC: ADMIRATION)”
AT REST
He knew well to bow to music greater than his he let his hands go silent with humility and grace he yielded his music to the song of the wind kept his feet in rhythm with the tinkling rain Still his music played though he alone could hear the bittersweet tune of his joys andContinue reading “AT REST”
WPC: COMMUNITY
SHAMISEN In the corner of a busy street and the public square she strummed her shamisen inviting the harried passerby to live in another time. Who heeds the call of her three-stringed guitar everyone is hurrying after his own star with those few moments in his hand could he even dare spare a second toContinue reading “WPC: COMMUNITY”
UPON HEARING ODE TO JOY
I heard it the opening notes of Ode to Joy and I walked, tracing the sound my feet as though growing wings with each step the music lifted me up bit by bit until I lose sense of my ground and my soul floats into the heavens rides the waves of joy and sorrow failureContinue reading “UPON HEARING ODE TO JOY”
MUSIC
There’s a language that speaks to all though only a few command it well an alphabet of eight notes all weighed in a scale needing no words – an infant knows he’s loved by the sound of his mother’s lullaby. Listen to Mancini command the notes with his baton as a wizard wields his staffContinue reading “MUSIC”
MY WALL 