Legacy of Poetry In Lyrics

Legacy in the Poetry of Lyrics Cold snow filled December day named thirteen Heard the first notes of your lyric legacy, Left handed December child of beguiling mischief, Exploding in advent of an undiscovered melodic tone poem Sometimes dark as winter thunder struggle Thrashing on the ocean of mourning and compulsive meter - A soliloquy of west side stories shouted over inner demons - Then in conversion modulating to an ode of selfless chorus, Selfless melody of rhythms and of rhymes, Epic verses – a mission to wrap the earth in ribbons of melody Stanzas sung by all the birds of the forest – Invited - chanted in lists of litany Over poetic prairies and mountain lentos Assonance and alliteration gaze tenderly As the rhythmic heartbeat diminishes in each line Then stops! Elegy of a thousand voices Rises to mourn then celebrate legacy emptied out Ever to be recited in plain chant and aria – freely given As the love poem recited by embracing open eternal arms. In memory of Dr. L. Scott Martin – my vocal coach extraordinaire of 20+ years, my colleague and my friend who saved my voice after two vocal surgeries. He never turned away any earnest student. His life was a poem – a lament and a song of praise. His legacy lives in the hundreds of voices he trained who continue his poem and his song.