Best Sevenths Poems

Musicianship 
(3 May 2014;  For my son Steven, an ACCOMPLISHED guitarist)

Real musicianship can truly drive you nuts—
There really are no “ifs”, “ands”, or “buts”.
Practice, study, memorize, then more practice--
Is this just an obsession or complete madness?

Learning chord inversions, arpeggios, and scales
Is like reaching Heaven...

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Which key should I put this song in?
I sing in G Ionian/major comfortably,
Likewise the relative E Aeolian/minor scale.
Plus those guitar chords are easy as sin.

I could choose a scale that’s more exotic -
D Mixolydian has the same notes and chords.
Hungarian or Roumanian minor, Spanish Gypsy.
Or...

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A finger is pointed from you. 
Three of them curling around 
pointing write back at you making you frown. 
Judgement is harder to do 
than you have the ability to pounce on my noun. 
My words were meant to display a real function. 
Perhaps to...

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There is an art to the
workings of the senses.
Sight, touch, sound,
vibrant colors all around.
She sees the color magenta 
when she thinks of
her childhood. 
She hears thirds and sevenths 
when she feels his
warm touch.
A harpist’s plucking
gives her a taste
of eternity. 

Live blissfully, words whisper. 
You synesthete!...

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the Satie 'twixt
'tween
major sevenths...

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