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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Alla Turca, A Love Affair With Mozart

25 Saturday Jan 2014

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Mozart Poems, Music Poems, Poem, Poems, Poetry

About playing it wrong: each incorrect move you integrate takes ten times the amount of practice to unlearn.  

For Mozart,

Whose music is to the fingers,

Like tongue-twisters to the tongue,

If you’ll accept his offer to dance,

You must learn the steps.

Teach yourself to surrender

As he leads you

From andante to allegretto,

Pushing you away,

Pulling you back to him,

Twirling you round and round

Until you’re dizzy;

You must unlearn everything,

Even walking,

In order to dance.

You’ll wonder if you can,

If it’s possible,

But you’ll love his way,

And want it.

After a time,

You’ll be ready to quit

But do two moves,

Simultaneously,

Then a string of moves,

Then another string.

And finally, believe you’re learning.

You’ll want to dance more, and more,

To prove it to him,

And yourself.

So, you’ll dance

‘Til you’re exhausted,

And laughing,

And, so thoroughly in love,

The only thing you can do after

Is relax in your favorite chair,

Light a cigar,

Watch the day drift by

In snow,

and the memory of song.

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A Pile of Eggs

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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Egg Poems, Eggs, Poem, Poetry

 

Little Tommy, he didn’t know

His life was a pile of eggs.

When death landed on the breast

Of the brittle mountain

Some slipped safely to the periphery,

They were the ones piled first,

While the newest eggs

Fell from the center down

And cracked with the sweetest sound,

The softest tick and click,

Dulled instantly

By the spreading of yokes.

A Dead Baby

17 Friday Jan 2014

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Losing a Child, Poem, Poems, Poetry

He said he killed his baby,

His own thirteen month old boy.

Of course, it was an accident

And, he tries to say,

His faith has helped him,

Though he’s clearly avoiding my eyes.

I say it’s our worst fear

And how many times it almost happened:

My own baby accidentally left in a hot car,

My own child run-away down a busy road.

So close, and yet, mine still live.

There but for the Grace of God, I say.

And, I don’t understand

Why people choose to bring sorrow

Into a world where sorrow finds them.

We’re all just a tick away from tragedy.

He agrees, says he’s had enough

These last three years of mourning.

There’ll never be a day he doesn’t see

His child run-over.

There’ll never be a day he doesn’t want

Another chance to stop the car

He says, there must be a reason.

For him, I surely hope there is,

And so, I agree.

Second Wife

10 Friday Jan 2014

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Ancestry Poems, Bisbee AZ, Cochise County, English Brides, Evergreen Cemetery, Poem, Poetry, Second Wife, Women's Issues, Women's Poems

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I look for her in the mirror.

How many times have I seen

Alice in black and white:

Spectacles perched above her nose,

Blonde hair pulled back,

Features as tiny as her waist.

The simple lace wedding dress

Gathers tightly there—

Think bound

Think trapped.

When she died, her stepchildren

Wanted to tear it apart for fabric,

But somehow it floated down to us

On wings as fragile as dead butterfly’s,

Or old bones in Cochise sand.

I don’t see Alice Martha Goldie,

His young English bride,

Not in my eyes, my hair,

Nose, cheeks, or chin,

Not even the waist,

In only this:

Second wife,

A woman in an unmarked grave,

Orphans, and a wedding dress

As thin as air.

alice martha goldie wedding dress from 1910

A New Year 2014

02 Thursday Jan 2014

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We’ve all been spit

Into a new year.

Not that weak kind of spit

Which is more like spray,

But rather,

A super-sonic loogie

Propelling us into 2014.

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