Faithful Teddy
...From the inside of music I looked out far
The sky was cloudy, preparing for rain
Sir Rattle on the Mezzo played Sir Elgar
The air fumed sour like the dead champagne
I went for the memories, to s...
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Categories:
elgar, longing, loss, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories:
elgar, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme
Serenade
...What have you done with my beau, I want take it to the show. What have you done with my beau, it time for you to go. What have you done with my beau; I want it back on the show. I like its style, it ...
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Categories:
elgar, appreciation, art, beauty, city,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
elgar, art, music,
Form: Shape
Clerihew Elgar
...Edward William Elgar
became an English music star
Variations 'Enigma' & choral
versatile & incidental...
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Categories:
elgar, music, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Sublimated Death Wish No Longer Permeates Thru Mine Every Cell
...When alive and livingsocial
within webbed wide world
analogous to an emotional hell
I never experienced pomp and circumstances,
and quavers with inconsolable tears
graduation theme song
popular...
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Categories:
elgar, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of Violin
...I pricked my ears to follow the sound,
As did my son and our puppy hound,
delight of violin in full tune,
Played to setting sun and rising moon!
Winter evening was well underway,
Christmas car...
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Categories:
elgar, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
A Gifted Niece
...What pride and joy for me to delight,
albeit vicariously upon receiving invite,
sans commencement at
Redmond Proficiency Academy
on May twenty second at six o'clock at night,
which arrangement t...
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Categories:
elgar, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Elegy
Matthew Scott Harris and His Doppelganger
...Figuratively tack one hundred
and eighty degrees away...
where joie de vivre underscores
poetic theme, no matter every day
brings gut wrenching tearful tragedy,
thee attention for heart warmi...
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Categories:
elgar, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Senior Moment - Part Uno
...enjoy the reed
now displayed as a satisfactory deed.
* * * * * *
A Senior Moment - written month...
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Categories:
elgar, dedication, happiness, high school,
Form: Elegy
High School Sadness Sans Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One Half
...Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event
Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform
i.e. most likely auditorium stage
marked by pronounced hushed audience,
who...
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Categories:
elgar, celebration, class, dedication, father
Form: Ballad
Music In the Air
...When life seems tough and full of care
And things go wrong at every turn,
Reach out, there’s music in the air.
As Elgar said, it’s everywhere,
This melody for which I yearn
When life seems tou...
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Categories:
elgar, music,
Form: Villanelle
30 Pieces
...Hanks of horse tail
Fractured hair
Slipping pegs and
Rosin dust
Memories of these tunes
I used to play as a kid
Hadn't heard them in many years
One page each or
Half-a-page
In this b...
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Categories:
elgar, childhood, musiclove,
Form: Free verse