Music

Balance and blend The question answers perfectly To the desires of the dance And just like that The painting is complete It almost paints itself Finding wings in the perfection Of this unexpected rhythm. How can soaring like this Surprisingly steady the ground? Breathlessly catching…

Waltz

Waltz Keeping time requires that the listener  overcome the awareness of his own body  in order to sync with the  vibrations of the whole.   It is painful to fight the waves of music that require absorption. Surrender. There comes a point when you stop…

Prompt 3 – The Smile

Hour 3 – The Smile   he stood listening to the beautiful music played by Cello’s in the Park With the crowd clapping and swaying in time, he smiled at the woman passing by.   smiling back, she extends her arm shy, he mouths “I’m…

2022 hour 3 / prompt 3 “tension”

2022 hour 3 / prompt 3 “tension”   Prompt: chose – audio prompt ‘city of stars’ arr. for 2 cellos   Dance, like life, is an exercise in tension So much can be expressed with so little Knowing when to reach out Knowing when to…

Hour 2 To Robert Frost

“My little horse must think it queer”* to see the big deer standing so near At this hour no other stake was guarded like a great keepsake.   But when the buck tilted his prongs then one could see what lingers here The grass so…

Los Angeles

I actually thought the streets would sparkle with twinkling light and diamond sunshine, boundless possibility and joy in this, the City of Stars. But now I see there is no sparkle here, only lost hopes and broken promises, a world of deep darkness in this,…

Old Plank

It’s always summer, alwayshot. The sky is always blue. There’s a barn.Behind the house, backof the garden were thefields.My cousin Barbara and I would walk through the grass, never quite reaching the woods.We are always young. Somuch of ourlives yet to be lived. Solong, long…

Hour 2: Post 2: Grass is Greener

The grass is always greener on the other side, so I always get told. Yet my opinion is that the grass is only green on the side it’s being cared for. Sure, your side may be more beautiful, but it’s fake. Spray painted and plastic-…