friends walking
new harmony
if we could walk
along
the gravel or something else
packed-
down until they get
to concrete
set
down perfected paths
without air un-gray
but with an interest in the clouds
whose
shapes we tacitly
acknowledge and with the part that
doesn’t have to
hear
can suss the shapes because
our time is easy and we define
companionable silence
that
we’ve been told about
through sorts
of
books
and so crunching go our way while
underneath
small sounds are radiated
into hearing or
more
silence
or
adding to the satisfying bank of noises
small
at our minds’ disposal
in this congenial time
the gift of that
and
us
our tranquil knowing of each other
and is this why the paintings in which
movement
is
nonetheless evoked
we
still call
the life still
and is this romantic
for we’ll have to
talk
now and then to keep things open
and
available over details
and maybe over
bigger
things that rise up
time
to time
yet for long stretches
counting
also
leaning into things we might keep
quiet with the outside or to
put up with
of
noises from our world even
the harmonious
though
quiet has its harmony
as well
c l couch
photo by Nigel Cohen on Unsplash
plus taking the photograph
If Music Be
The life of a conductor
Intensity in perfect clothes
The privilege of
Moods
A reason for performance
I used to attend
I used to direct
I enjoyed the motion
In the rhythm of the spheres
So what shall we do
Have a romantic ending
After a crisis of crescendo
A denouement that tells us that
The story’s over
Soon will be time to go home
I think that sounds right
Let the music take us
Through
The passages
The energy
The final resolutions
Then, you know,
The end
C L Couch
https://www.kusc.org/culture/out-and-about-blog/john-mauceri-leonard-bernstein/
image there without specific credit but a good story about Bernstein and legacy
L is for Lyric
Will you sing with me?
If I start,
If you start,
Shall we sing together?
The earth spins off harmony,
A jubilance of sparks—
Fireworks
In the mind
Our words become song
And, while orbiting,
An invitation:
Into our creating cups,
Ambrosia-better,
Liquid inspiration
Not for drinking but for
Utterance,
Music becoming
Current in the cosmos
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/
Blogging from A to Z Challenge
Heart v Mind
a divorce decree
whereas
heart and mind
can’t get along
but must reside
next door one
the other
the body the
home must
remain neutral
ground in
cellular space
distinct unless
the distance
might be closed
under new
terms
maybe new
referring
certainty
new mutual
deference of
apprehension
natural and
reasonable law
that all is not
an eye (Saint
Paul) and
Qualities
Become quality
If two commit
To harmony
Diversity in
Self-diffusion
From synapse
Twined with
Capillary
Emotion
Whereas thus
And so
inspired by Rosema, A Reading Writer,
https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/heart-vs-mind-a-somonka/
Psalm 24
a song of in-between
What do we do on an in-between
Day? How might we please
You, Lord, on this kind of day?
If we do small things—speak
More softly and with civility
To those we know and those
Whom we encounter;
If we see the grey wash of
Sky and appreciate that it
Is not a sky of harsher conflict;
If we enjoy the colors, textures
That we have (even awash) and
Simple meals within our means
To have three times—post-dawn,
At midday, and again in twilight;
If we choose to look at harmony
And listen to the view—if
We accomplish these diminutive
Tasks, maybe without thinking,
Might we still please you? We
Do hope so and so we pledge,
Even if all around us is
An indifferent age
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