One Deep Breath - Music
Music haiku - what could be more appropriate for me, especially today as I prepare to return to my job as an accompanist for high school singers. Music is a huge passion of mine- playing it, performing it, sharing it with others. I've considered myself a musician for at least 44 of my 50 years, and I hope I can continue practicing (forgive the pun!) this art for at least 44 more!
Hands poised to strike
eighty-eight keys to command
the ivories are mine
Black notes on the page
become lyric and song
feeding my soul
Lost in the melody
singer becomes song
we emerge triumphant
Applause like fine wine
richly rewards mind and heart -
encore please!
Hands poised to strike
eighty-eight keys to command
the ivories are mine
Black notes on the page
become lyric and song
feeding my soul
Lost in the melody
singer becomes song
we emerge triumphant
Applause like fine wine
richly rewards mind and heart -
encore please!
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posted by Becca at Monday, August 21, 2006
20 Comments:
so glad the prompt moved you, lovely haiku. (wait 'til you read the one I'm working on LOL)
Lovely series! I wish I had the confidence on the piano that you obviously do in haiku 1!
beautiful thoughts in these haiku. your passion for music shines right through.
Luck today back at work!
Lovely, especially the first and third! We'd never know you a musician:)!!
Becca, I will confess that when this idea occured to me, you were the first person I thought of...right after Carole King :-)
Beautiful haiku! One of these days you must make an mp3 of your music to share with us!
Your words send music through the room
The words are as beautiful as I know your music must be. Although it will make your schedule busier, I'm sure the return to your music at school will enliven the muse that has been on summer vacation and set her to dancing through your fingers.
I love how positvie your haiku's are--cool!
you can consider yourself a poet, too!
Thank you for sharing a musical perspective not available to those of us who don't play an intsrument.
Oh, those really make me wish I hadn't had that teenage rebellion against my piano classes! Beautiful!
Where do I start? These haiku are oozing your musical passion and are magnificent!"hands poised to strike" "singer becomes song" such beautiful notes you have played here.
These haiku so clearly sing of your passion for music! You effortlessly combine musical langauge with the syllabic requirements for haiku. Lovely blending of two arts!
Your haiku are great! Nice photo too!
Gorgeous haiku! It's obvious your heart lies in music. I envy you being able to play the piano everyday. Your job sounds so rewarding - and fun!
These are wonderful! Thank you so much for your comments on my blog. I've been busy reading your archives, can't wait to read them all!
Love the word cloud thing you found!
fantastic series Becca - I love the first one best of all-
*eighty-eight keys to command*-
fabulous!
In each section there is a moment of transformation, of change and potential. Will the hands strike in violence? Notes and singer become song. And the might of a good round of applause.
Music, and clearly poetry has a power and I like how you've encapsulated this. That's what struck me, anyway :-)
Becca, this is just lovely and so captures the spirit of your passion that is also your work. How very blessed you are.
Those first two get to me, the last line of the first one especially--so triumphant and yet understanding that the one is only powerful with the other and vice versa. That's what makes the second such a good companion to the first. It's the side of the coin where the person understands that even in the making of music she is the one who is satisfied.
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