Category Music
Listen
Simple words Can mean Or modify So much more Than we imagine Shall I explain? Just one word Only please, Don’t complain It’s my view Agree or not Encourage me Play the snot All the same To me So, I appeal Everyone Gather near Listen See if you can Guess My single word Will […]
Expansion
Taiko drumming Vast energy I feel it Through the floor Below me Hear it, too Though I sit A floor below I hear it Filtered through Talk and chatter People passing Brief snippets To interpret As if my own Piercing shrieks Children Laughter, love After nothing Nothing after For artist, writer Creatives all Seeing […]
Copland — Quiet Town
I never made it inside to hear the program Though I remain certain I arrived on time Up and back pacing, words, feelings raging A brassy shout, complaint, perceived injury Iniquity, injustice, sighs, prudent acceptance Neither earth-shattering nor life-threatening I listen then from outside of the concert hall Captured finally, soulful music plaintive rings Thoughts […]
Happy New Year
My final painting of 2015 11 x 14 Oil on Cradled Birch Rembrandt in the Raw (Ground pigment in a Netherlands’windmill) Happy New Year to everyone in the world. May the most we hope for, be the least that we receive. Art will be added to Fine Art America in 2016
Night Watch
Written after attending a choral concert. Oh, let their voices fill me with their hope and love The melancholy, joy, hushed, rich full expectation Transported upon notes, sweets percussive chimes Sailing over sweet strings, wave break, wind-full sail Terra firma seen nowhere within our restless vision Must trust the melody and bass beam underpinning Unknown […]
War and Music
The held breath Anticipated moment Awaiting Fall of the baton Order to attack The battle begun Enemy engaged Black notes Nebulous faces Hours of practice, drill Engraving response Into your body Your mind, being Carving moments Movements Into your soul Send up a prayer To a higher power Universal spirit Favored deity To watch over […]
None So Blind
Spinning stories so I may begin to understand Walking within a sheltered wood, artist’s view Pine needles slip beneath my steps and recall Soft, changing winds, tires on newly-fallen rain Ideas from distant time, till this one, right now Our own insights or through eyes, ears, hands As composers, artists, writers interpret our life They […]
Anywhere and Everywhere
Could it be that I have found my perfect place? You could join me; it’s not a contest or a race. Because you all are ever, always welcome there. Plenty of good food, sweet water and clean air
Perception
In that place where all is intertwined to all deep within Behind a wall my brain and body built around my soul Who I am, was, have been, might be, might have been Waiting for me to build a solid path to my chosen goal Perhaps, like me, you recognize everything’s connected Yet fall short, […]
Twixt Art and Eternity
What waits within us; what secrets might it seek Are we merely meat puppets, if bold or if meek We think we’re the best, after our upward climb Before we see artwork that is more than sublime We are staggered, stunned, stopped in our tracks In transcendent beauty, ugly, fair, nothing it lacks Inner truth […]
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