Notes About The Poem
This is but an experiment addressing what inspired Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei (Adagio For Strings).
Might It Be--
Might It Be--
by Odin Roark
Musical consciousness
surpassing even the bliss of silence
Touch that lifts
layered secrets from the
striations of marble
Salt upon the lips
swirling distant memories
of aquatic heritage
Colors that mix
mind's forever pigments
with imagined emotions
not yet born
yet ancient in nature's
sorrow and joy
Might it have been...love
That
which we know little of
which rises above earthly truth
to the darkness
that only light can know
Mr. Barber
To a secular believer
what is your Lamb of God
if not something
only transcendence can deliver
perhaps while listening to one's breath
or your harmonies of ethereal conscience
What might it be?
Copyright © Odin Roark | Year Posted 2013
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