Best Bernstein Poems

Bernstein Visits
                  by Odin Roark

Bernstein-infused reverie
Unexpected connections
Dissonance merging
Like Central Park
Pathways disappearing
Reappearing
Amidst boulder and street lamp
An urban forest
Accenting imagination's readiness

Aware
Knowing
His "Age of Anxiety"
Gathers its shadows
From late night echoes
Preparing celebration
An...

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In the heart of melodies, a a luminary arose,  
Leonard Bernstein, whose brilliance still grows.  
A maestro with a baton, a poet with a score,  
In his music, he found what life yearned for. 

With passion ablaze, he'd command the stage, ...

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