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Variations On a Theme

An underlying theme breathing sleepy, ice clear and blue to stop you in your tracks on a warm summer night, after having pulled into the driveway under the honey suckle awning and hummingbird flutters- To wait. To plug up the windows with glass and crank up the cold air. To listen. As sound waves on a variation impound this lost soul to redemption's hand, buying back a love of music and it's depth. Ralph Vaughn Williams at his best- a weaver on a theme by Thomas Tallis. The introduction to a love, sure to be life long, of symphonic surges which stop you, still and silent before you can perform your next deed. Let the onlookers in the house wonder on. Let them ask themselves: "Is she okay? She's been sitting in that car for a long time..." For, when you arrive (moments before your actual psyche quiets down from the beauty) they will see your smile, and know with suddenness that you have tasted goodness and purity, and have bought back the rights to your own "forever" - just variations on a theme of life.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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