Best John Cage Poems
They say one cannot embrace pure silence,
But can they feel the silence embracing them?
Our minds in pausing and transitions,
Could it be…that
Within our souls is an air pocket or two?
Is there a space that should be filled?—can be filled?
The composer was aware by the traffic
That music is merely sounds
And he accepts those sounds and loves them!
Many have said if this was so,
How meaningless music would be!
But there is a certain truth to his words
That one can find buried inside
Nothing is quiet
Everything is so loud
Silence is naught but fought
And mechanical resonances bring peace to the heart
Like sounds to music
Is like words to poetry
There is possibly no rhythm to it at all
But there is a mental tempo as hard as iron in this shackled mind
Poems are all but words
I accept what they are
Simple, wonderful words
And they are embraceable
Even in our view of silence
-inspired by the composer John Cage on the “experience of silence and sound”-
Thinking outside his cage
A war on tradition he waged,
Writing notes by chance,upon a page-
His disharmonies cannot be forecast
Many suppose his music will not last
John Cage= Avan-garde composer
John Cage
four
three-three
John Cage-
piano dreams..in a landscape
stay
awhile
wait
close eyes
listen
imagine
wonder:
notes
stream
as
continuous
contentment:
alone
in this quiet
of
my mind-
dream..
ing
This happening poem is of thoughts and words that happened as I listened to youtube clip of John Cage piano piece 'In a Landscape' which in reality is a part of this happening poem.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hVFCmK6GgM
stay
awhile
wait
close eyes
listen
imagine
wonder:
notes
stream
as
continuous
contentment:
alone
in this quiet
of
my mind-
dream..
ing
NOTE:
This happening poem is of thoughts and words that happened as I listened to youtube clip(above) of John Cage piano piece 'In a Landscape' which in reality is a part of this happening poem.
Silence
A one word tribute poem to John Cage Composer/poet 4:33
I am here (solitude)
and there is
nothing to say
those who wish to get
somewhere
let them leave at any
moment
what we require is
silence (solitude)
but what silence
requires
is that I go on
talking
give any one
thought
a push
it
falls
down easily
but the pusher
and the pushed
produce
the entertainment
called
a discussion
shall we have
one
later ?
or
we
simply decide
not to
have
discussion (solitude)
whatever
you
like
but now
there are silences
and the words
make ( & ) help make
the silences
I have
nothing to say
and I am
saying it
and that
is poetry
as I need it
(and my solitude)
(in my silence)
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November 9, 2019
Poetry/Verse/A Tribute to Cage and Solitude
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1195-084-02
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
A Tribute to the poem, Lecture on Nothing, John Cage
*the words in brackets are my addition to his poem
Written for FTI Blog Series 23 - Solitude
Brian Strand
Podium Place 1
stay
awhile
wait
close eyes
listen
imagine
wonder:
notes
stream
as
continuous
contentment:
alone
in this quiet
of
my mind-
dream..
ing
NOTE:
This happening poem is of thoughts and words that happened as I listened to youtube clip(above) of John Cage piano piece 'In a Landscape' which in reality is a part of this happening poem.
Silence
A one word tribute poem to John Cage Composer/poet
'Listen' to my clip on YouTube
https://youtu.be/oFKu3StgnSw
With his 4.33 Cage opened a surrealist musical door
a short symphony needing no conductor or score
John Cage IN A LANDSCAPE
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Alfred Leslie Erik Satie
with musicak dissonance so free
Once was all the rage
conveying the genre to John Cage
piano ' in a landscape'*-
John Cage in a more conventonal shape
John Cage 'wrote' the symphony 4:33
with notes none could see
From the orchestra no sound is found
the'music' being 'noise ' randomly found