Brahms Poems - Poems about Brahms

2024.5.14 Good night, sleep tight. Don't let bug bites. Avo was unhappy and said "I thought I was his favorite, But no, not really. I have been ignored Just like the rest of you all" "Poor C33, she has to cope with us All by herself". Chilli added. Banana snapped back "That's life, get used to it. Just like the song...

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It is bitter cold crossing the Thames to the Festival Hall, now we are as warm as if in a local pub. Hush now you people – who I shall never know, or meet again anywhere, Hush the endless calculations of your tieless brains. Brahms is adjusting his piano stool. A fine performance. Old, fat, cigar smoking Brahms in the guise of a lovely female...

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Hamburg's Johannes Brahms wrote lullabies sans any quams Embarrassed by ny outward show frustrated conductor as you may know...

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Brahms pushes a piano into my ear. I hear the stool creak as he sits. He does not introduce the music, he expects me to remember it, know it, eat it. He lights up a Havana, clarinet and violin cough inside a woody cochlear. Viola takes hold of a long nostalgic ligament loosening a stirrup bone. Bearded old Brahms shifts from one large butt cheek to another, chords...

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Feldeinsamkeit (“Solitude in a Field” or "Through the Fields of Solitude") by Hermann Allmers translation by David B. Gosselin with Michael R. Burch Peacefully, I rest in the tall green grass For a long time only gazing as I lie, Caught in the endless hymn of crickets, And encircled by a wonderful blue sky. And the lovely white clouds floating across The...

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The spiral staircase made her high heels sing, the metal tips on her heels dinged on the metal steps. The sound reminded John of bullets ricocheting on a tin roof he had heard two weeks before. She reached the stage and joined the other dancers and then one of the girls sang Brahms lullaby. John...

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BRAHMS’ LULLABY* A funeral dirge Victrola dies mid-sentence Edison tinkers Kim Rodrigues © 2017 *Brahms’ Lullaby by Johannes Brahms...

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Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied Ganted, gubbed, guttered Bladdered, blathered, leathered, plastered, Sozzled, sloshed, scuttered Hammered, battered, caned, mangled Spannered, mullered. Half-cut, lashed Twisted, warped, slammed, wasted Wrecked, ruined. Munted, trashed Liquified, marinated, juiced, sauced, Steamed, pickled, fried Cabbaged, mashed, cooked, baked Boiled,...

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JOHANNES BRAHMS. Soulful tumulted movements grounded in stoically melodic Vast pools of sounds gliding in dire drumbeats of the heroic A gift for the bleakness of being sealed in alchemical cistern Heart stringed intense expressions within a dedicated discipline. A chromatic boldness in harmony of some faltered age Into the...

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The melody floats ...

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