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The Nutcracker

THE NUTCKRACKER

Did you see it
Hear it?
Balanchine’s choreography
Tschaikowsky’s music
The New York City Ballet

Speak of dancing?
Speak of music?
Neither can describe art
It must be inwardly felt – 
     color and music extrasensory

Mathematics – Geometry comes close
You    a throbbing spirit
    centered in some rectangular enormity
The whole    pounding    awareness
Swept off in dream state

The ballerina
The toe
The grace
Quintessential feminine

The whirl    inside your skull
Spinning
Round the brain
Yet    there is a wholeness    delicacy
So levitating

Can you sense the mystery –
    what flies beyond the stage –
When all comes together
In a bold tympani stroke?

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Michelle Mac Donald

Date: 1/8/2012 10:14:00 AM

Thank you for sharing your wonderous perspective of 'The Nutcracker", Daver! You are definitely an expert of fine music and the beauty of gesture. I feel that your mind is totally absorbed, this piece will tug at the thoughts and memories of so many. Beautifully composed, Daver! May your New Year herald great health and joy! Love, Mikki

Robert A. Dufresne

Date: 1/7/2012 5:41:00 PM

You are awesome Daver! what a descript! I just read your work to my wife. Her response "Oh, he's very good ....does he have a book out?" love ,Bob and Gail

Elizabeth Wesley

Date: 12/21/2011 8:24:00 PM

Such magic in the ballet of thE NUTCRACKER dAVER; IT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CHILDHOOD TO SEE. lOVELY DESCRIPTIONS! hOPE YOUR cHRISTMAS IS BEAUTIFUL! Excuse the caps, I have a wayward finger.

Lionel Ledbetter

Date: 12/21/2011 6:28:00 PM

Moving discription, very good.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/21/2011 5:06:00 PM

Daver, I saw your poem over at PFT. Just to let you know. It was another one,not this one. I think this one you posted at PFT earlier in the week, right? Glad you got my card and thanks for what you said about my family. I hope many families are like mine. I sure seem to think they are. Put up the new poem I saw you post at PFT!!

Daver Austin
Date: 12/23/2011 9:18:00 AM

I couldn't post the poem on soup - too many words.

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 12/21/2011 8:38:00 AM

Just dropped by to thank you for your kind comments on my writing this past year Daver. I have enjoyed reading your poetry and hope to be reading it for years to come. Love, Carol

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/20/2011 6:51:00 PM

OH, yes, here is the one I saw at PFT. Did you get my comment back on it? I don't suppose you did. Anyway, this is lovely. And you really put you soul into poems about music. Daver, one of my poems was featured at a place called Friendship Garden. Problem is, I did n't save the link. If you really want to know, it will be right there where Connie posted it at PFT. Have you ever gone to their main board and just commented from there? You just log on to yahoogroups and find PFT.