Best Bernstein Poems

Bernstein Visits
                  by Odin Roark

Bernstein-infused reverie
Unexpected connections
Dissonance merging
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THE JEWELER’S LATHE

Summer’s last rose
After many admiring morning visits
And with nature’s rusty brown and gold 
Surrounding, drawing comparison,
Becomes even more pink and beautiful

Being aware as...

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SYMPHONY

Searching the audience
Young and old in rapt attention
Maestro, Bernstein, has come on stage
Players have done their final warm up
House lights are dimmed
Only the foots and...

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Since “West Side Story” hit the stage,
No show could quite compare.
Such music, lyrics, dances, plot
Are magical and rare.

The gorgeous tunes you can’t forget
Are Bernstein at...

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No Maria -
when a Bernstein motif lingers.
No rosary beads -
they'll simply slip 
through bourbon-stained fingers.
God carved the seven continents,
with skillful guise, 
and Puccini cries.
Adam's rib...

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New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller,...

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News broadcast:

Bad news from the Afghan front lines,
an Army lance corporal got killed
from Battalion 5, company 9

Soldier Bill James Medlark,
affectionately known as Billy the Kid
Saved...

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Mountains glow like amber
As being lit by an eternal fire
The sun sets slowly

Andean peaks embedded in clouds
Shadows spread  on ancient sands




Berge glühen wie Bernstein
Wie...

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Before commiting to battle,
A wise warrior reviews the odds,
Determines the likelyhood of success,
And judges accordingly...

In my younger, gang years,
I at times deviated from this basic...

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Pangiota’s Personal Meeting with Oscar Winner,
George Chakiris of “West Side Story”…. 1961


You were alarmingly affable and delightful.
Accepting, and so very, very sweet,
To have a special-one...

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Broadway
Awed play

Groovy
Movie

Bernstein
Earns screen  
                 
Bernstein
Churns scenes.....


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If i remember  correctly: 
My philosophy was Don't react unless 
Necessary. The school day was over.
The ride home began normally. 
(Corrections made In this...

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The chatter of small birds frame a window of light.
My kettle is coughing; soon its shrill whistle
will startle me, even though I know exactly
when it...

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With the war still raging overseas
Woodward and Bernstein dug to write
President impeached for misdeeds
The seventies came and stayed the night

Bell bottoms flared on to the...

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hop
skip
jive,jump
run
      toward
      the sound:
be alive
     glide 
    ...

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