A DREAM COME TRUE
...If you were here, what would I say to you
How can I express what is in my heart
How is it that I have such an overwhelming desire
For someone I have never met but it seems to me
I have known you...
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Categories:
accompanist, appreciation, dream, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Transcriptions
...After a long walk
I transcribed myself into piano music.
All night a harpsichord
had been jangling nerves,
rattling the same baroque concerto
over and over again.
I count I-100, then start ov...
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Categories:
accompanist, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Choir Director
...My choir director
is a painter
a music stand her easel
the choir loft her frame
her canvas is the air
we breat...
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Categories:
accompanist, music,
Form: Free verse
Aubade
...You ...
are the breath of heaven,
an exhalation of the divine ire ...
a "l’appel du vide" angelic, pure,
accompanist to the day's glory,
a sacred diva's ...
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Categories:
accompanist, life, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Flamenco
...Emotional tension fills the air...
Lights and laughter everywhere
A fiesta audience waits eagerly for a night of passion.
The dance of Spain and a sensual dancer
The Andalusian Gypsy danc...
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Categories:
accompanist, dance, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Love's Duet
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Love's Duet
by Rick Rucker
Does your heart, to you, sound like a spinet?
Ever louder, by the minute?
My diagnosis, sad to say,
Someone has stolen your heart away!
What's that yo...
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Categories:
accompanist, love, romance, heart, heart,
Form: Couplet
Tomorrow's Flavor Today
...The years went by approaching an end
Time had lost its savor still in search of a meaning
Distance faded away closely producing vivid streaks
Marking the end of the beginning and the beginning of ...
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Categories:
accompanist, on writing and wordslost,
Form: I do not know?
Full House
...FULL HOUSE
“Full house,” she said “Every seat’s taken
There’s an excitement out there!” she said
All he saw was the empty stage
a Steinway Grand its ben...
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Categories:
accompanist, anniversary, life, musicpeople, people,
Form: Narrative