"Claude not a clod Debussy"
elle est chaude if
i could as
if
d'un faune
getting
it on
on and with
a nymph's
veil as if
it was
the most
holy holiest
grail
Categories:
debussy, color,
Form: Free verse
Claude Achille Debussy
loved simplicity
His music defied tradition
with innovative exposition
Categories:
debussy, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
DEBUSSY – AFTERNOON OF A FAWN
On the summer meadow
A creature so beautiful
Blending with nature’s wild inconstancy
In the quiet he can sense a kind of distant music
And, balancing on shaky legs, head cocked,
Listens
What heard?
What seen?
It is creation’s natural caesura
A rest even nature must take
Needing no thought, no struggle
Witness without witness
This all but in a charmed moment
When, with a sniff, and in a rapture of
playfulness.
He bounds off
To mingle with afternoon’s bountiful spread
Young
Free aware
Dave Austin
Categories:
debussy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Debussy Inspiration
I advanced from piano player to pianist
When I finally memorized Claire De Lune.
Since then I’ve migrated to a rhythm guitarist,
But I could never escape that flowing tune.
I played Debussy’s song so often without the sheets
That over time it evolved to something else.
A few different notes or off-rhythmic beats;
So that an expert would patently find it false.
I eventually learned to play more difficult songs:
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,
And many of Scott Joplin’s syncopated ragtime songs;
But Debussy’s Claire De Lune still remains a part of me.
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Categories:
debussy, corruption, dedication, inspiration, lost
Form: Quatrain
Oh I do so love Debussy
And his mystical tides of the sea
And I swoon with the moon
At the sweet Clair de Lune
As its melody so gently sweeps over me.
Categories:
debussy, moon,
Form: Limerick