Wednesday 14 December 2016

POETS UNITED - MUSIC


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“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” - Friedrich Nietzsche 

This week, PoetsUnited has as its Midweek Motif the theme of “Music”. Music is very much a part of my life – listening to it, playing it, composing it, so it is easy for me to write to this theme. Here is my contribution: 

Music in the Night 

In the stillness of the night
To the silvern moon’s delight
Sweetly does the flute resound
Spilling music all around.

Ebon skin and hair that shimmers
Shiny glance that softly glimmers,
Sinuous and sweet’s the air
Luring beasts from out their lair.

Music makes the jungle tame
Calms and yet ignites a flame.
Music soothes the savage beast
Rouses passions in the priest.

Neath the moon’s resplendent orb
Flowers music’s strains absorb.
Snakes start to slither, slide, 
Straight up the flautist glide.

She charms serpent, beast and bird
With her music not her word;
Now the snakes around her creep
Up they climb, roused from sleep.

Music heals the deepest wound
Makes the air around perfumed.
Music calls to arms and strife,
Yet assassins drop their knife.

And each gentle leaf unfurls,
Flower twines and softly curls;
As the music upwards floats
Rhythm, melody, sweet notes.

In the stillness of the night
To the silvern moon’s delight
Sweetly does the flute resound
Spilling music all around.

14 comments:

  1. Very apt poem to match the Rousseau painting.Merry Christmas Nicholas !

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  2. The musicality of this poem truly reflects your connection to music - it is indeed magical..

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  3. What a delight this poem is, Nicholas! Perhaps you could set it to music?

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  4. The magical flute in the poem reminds me of Krishna's flute, music spilling from it roused ecstatic love for God in the true devotee's heart...this poem is a beauty...

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  5. My goodness, this is absolutely divine!!!❤️

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  6. what an enchanting scene you paint ..was transported there.

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  7. " Music makes the jungle tame
    Calms and yet ignites a flame."

    you captured well, the dichotomy that is music

    Happy Wednesday

    much love...

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  8. I felt as if I could hear the flute as I was reading the poem. Beautifully written :)

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  9. Such an Ode to Music! It moves me, every word and line and rhyme, maybe especially the lady and the snakes.

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  10. You outdid yourself Nicholas. This is truly special. Your love of music cannot be denied nor more aptly proclaimed. Your poem is beautifully artful.

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  11. Music does heal wounds! This is beautifully written and it touches the soul!

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  12. Yes, it reads as if it just flowed effortlessly out of you!

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  13. This is lovely, Nicholas. Music really can change a person's mood, I think. It can tame the jungles of one's mind, if they need taming. It can heal wounds. I like the idea that it can perfume the air. Music definitely is a healing balm, Nick, and you expressed this so very well.

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