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Beve Companio

Between day and night
               my quiescent hub

Eve and dawn slow-
    dancing in the soft pause

Views are hazy
    lazing in the mellowed rev

Eventualities curb
          as harmonies merge


Chords dark, soon creep
            in a discordant sync
overpowering the light
        dimming melody’s halo
Menace seeps deep tones
          droning thru a dream

Packed disharmony!
            Wolves snarling sharp
as they watch 
    singular beams of aurora
nick and sear,
   jarring woods from deadpan


I grieve the briefness,
  this escape from me and i
Over the calm, 
         life calls away its woo

(8/7/2022 Inspired by Gymnopedies I Contest)

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Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 8/26/2022 3:47:00 AM

Life always calls away too soon when we are in the light of things, how beautiful you portray it all, congrats on your win dear Susan, a wonderful piece of poetry,

Susan Woodrow
Date: 8/26/2022 7:04:00 AM

Thank you, Rose :)

John Watt

Date: 8/25/2022 3:36:00 PM

Susan, I really enjoyed seeing where the Satie music allowed your thoughts to travel... the mellow quietude of stanza 1, the darkening musical references of stanza 2 (I particularly liked "dimming melody’s halo / menace seeps deep tones"), the ominous forest imagery of stanza 3, closing with the existential anxiety of stanza 4. Very thought-provoking and captures the vibe of the music so aptly. Congrats on your podium win ~ John

Susan Woodrow
Date: 8/25/2022 6:59:00 PM

Thank you John You’ve analyzed my write better than i could! Congratulations on your top win :)

Sam Kauffman

Date: 8/25/2022 10:00:00 AM

Susan, beautifully composed! Your imagery is really stunning as it drifts on the melodic lines of the music. Congratulations on your win. Hope you have found some relief from the heat up north! It has cooled down here with morning fog and stronger onshore breezes. Blessings.

Susan Woodrow
Date: 8/25/2022 1:50:00 PM

Thank you, Sam … yes it is just a few degrees cooler in Shasta but the lake is nice :)

Constance La France

Date: 8/25/2022 8:58:00 AM

Susan, a beautiful poem and congratulations on your win in the contest ~

Susan Woodrow
Date: 8/25/2022 1:43:00 PM

Thank you :)