Sally Eslinger Poet Prose

Vivaldi Violin

Vivaldi’s Violin

 The sound begins vague as a thought from perhaps 
a misted remembrance made more distant more soft 
in the surrounding sunset not trusting eyes only ears.

I sit up and listen indeed stretch all hearing as music 
surely music more than the wind’s whistling moves 
ever closer alerting me to a whole physical smiling

through the opened backdoor I cast my sight past
the silhouetted trees of early December past 
yellow-glowing windows of neighboring homes and on 

past the twinkling white low-altitude warning lights set 
like many a Venus on the horizon I notice I am 
not frozen from weather but rather awaiting a sign as 

a startling soloist continues Vivaldi’s allegro non motto 
violin in a love affair with nature a secret in splendor
 a flying to heights just beyond human 

ears or prayers in this courting of my soul and its 
further reaching in Winter III Allegro that could lift 
the twilight ever more than experienced in dreams.

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(c) sally Young eslinger 12/3/2020
Thanks be to God

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Darlene De Beaulieu December 18, 2020 at 5:26 AM Hello Sally Esllnger, so nice to meet you. I enjoy classical music. My fav. is the Nutcracker.I also have other faves. I like the sound of the violin and piano. I listen more to classical music than other music. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Enjoy your day my friend. Darlene De Beaulieu December 19, 2020 at 10:34 AM Hello Sally the next time I am at the music store i will look for this CD. I now listen to the Nutcracker almost every day. It is one of my favourites in Classical music. You were a student of ballet! Merry Christmas. Enjoy your day my friend. Sally Eslinger December 19, 2020 at 6:27 AM Hi Darlene! Nice to meet you. You will Love Tchaikovsky’s ButterflyConcerto. Get a knownsymphony version & as you listen, read my poem Dance of the Butterfly. Studied ballet at MET Opera School of ballet nyc in h.s. Be well!

Mahtab Bangalee December 10, 2020 at 1:47 AM yes; just wow; can say about this poem in praising; delightful feel to read Sally Eslinger December 13, 2020 at 10:27 AM And wow toyourcomment, it came to me in a dream, but so real that while I was writing it, I was icing t. Had. Vivaldi on the earphones. Thank you eans a lot.

Jennifer Fenn December 4, 2020 at 7:36 PM All I can say is WOW! Keep it up! This is gorgeous! I like your picture. Is that a self portrait? Sally Eslinger December 7, 2020 at 10:21 PM Hi! Thanks for your comment re the poem and drawing. The drawing has a sense of me, more in spirit than reality, I guess. My good friend says it is me. I like to draw birds and people. I can do quick likenesses like this for anyone. Lacking real models, I spend hours drawing the women and children who live in my head ????. Thanks. Be well!