Best Mahler Poems

TANGLEWOOD AS THERAPY

Tanglewood untangled me, took my breath away
each moment of Sibelius, Mahler, Rachmaninoff 
sweet violins, trumpets, kettle drums, cellos, fire
mixed with wind, echoing within...

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They all speak to me:
sometimes alone, 
like a solo cello with 
its sad, plaintive voice, 
tugging at my soul
like a magnet pulling 
at life's deep...

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The silence, the almost endless joyful silence, 
That's what I remember most looking back, 
Silence and belonging, companionship, 
Not in Nature so much as part...

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feasting on high
     with four mahler horns quailing
            r. strauss...

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Moody Mahler to lyrical Mozart
An Inspiring melodic form of art.

An American doublet...

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Be not sad,
Be joyful and glad
Listen to Tchaikovsky not Mahler
Throw a party
Laugh and eat hearty
At the Happy Smily Funeral Parlor....

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Passion buried like a stone
When Alma left Oskar alone;
Their anagram she was to unpick
Leaving him bereft,lovesick..alack
His studio & life,painted..black on black

*anagram of their Christian names...

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Remember all those tea ads with the chimps on?
We’ll prostitute the Prague of Gustav Mahler
and desecrate the divas of La Scala.
Would Bart betray begettor Homer...

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I. Early Childhood’s Gifts

Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child...

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WALKING AT NIGHT

Moon
Black sky
Dissonant
On the cracked sidewalk
Old neighborhood
House tops
Like pyramids    and
Trees meet above the street
Car passing
How the oily street shines
Streaks__________________
FLASHES!
Yellow to the...

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Oh, the emptiness you leave behind -
Love is a noon-bright meadow stripped of its green,
Whose birds forget their songs: Or am I tone deaf now?
The...

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VIGNETTE FORM an example

In the base motor pool
See an off-limits card school-
A scheming Bilko takes the pot
Hoodwinking top brass was his game,
Fast talking his claim...

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A LATE QUARTET

Sitting
Looking out
Nothing comes
Nothing goes

Twiggy windows
A weeping pine
Earth    Moon
Mahler comes to mind

Sentimental lion
Spastic in sleep
A fractured three-quarter time
Dancing   ...

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The skilled have fashioned melodies,
the keystrokes of the mind,
proclaiming hopes and verities,
extolling humankind;
colours unbeknown'st to us
do hover and distill,
and splash, now they're synonymous
with God's almighty...

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A vaporetto upon the sea
A love departs that could never be-
Tears trickle down  face,
Mahler played at his slowest pace,
Langsum,adagietto-slow.

Scene from Death in Venice...

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