Composer Edward Grieg
was well-to-do indeed
Many love his Peer Gynt suite
to give themselves a treat
Categories:
grieg, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
"Vi træffes der, min Ven!" Solvejgs sang*
once after eons
we'll meet there again my friend -
time's zilch for lovers
9/3/2019
Maureen McGreavy’s Sing Me A Senryu Poetry Contest
Favorite song: Solveig's Song by Edvard Grieg
https://youtu.be/n3SyreMN7y8
* (nor.) "We'll meet there again, my friend!" Solveig's Song
Categories:
grieg, love, time,
Form: Senryu
At any time that rain comes pouring down
and thunderbolts invade the rumbling sky
I think of Bittner, Hoffman, Brahms or Strauss.
Their music comes to mind to satisfy
the strong emotions where my soul could drown.
Then when the storm recedes, losing its flair,
dark clouds disperse and sunshine flirts with blue.
Liszt, Grieg, Beethoven intense passion rouse,
combine to bid the vanquished foe adieu:
quiescence reigns as music fills the air.
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This poem is written in (my) SUPLICA form.
It consists of 2 stanzas.
Both stanzas have 5 lines, each 10 syllables long.
(Iambic Pentameter is recommended)
The rhyme scheme is the following:
a - b - C - b - a
d - e - C - e - d
Categories:
grieg, music,
Form: Rhyme
resting
relaxing
thinking
of
yesterdays,
what
might
have
been
the
whys
the
wherefores:
no
matter..
..tomorrow is here
inspired by Grieg 2nd piano concerto clip
Categories:
grieg, inspirational, music,
Form: Verse
the strivings
of love,
waltz
into my
heart
bringing
contentment:
a
beauty
that thrills
an experience
so novel...
I must
tell
inspired by Grieg Piano Sonata in A
Categories:
grieg, inspirational, music,
Form: Verse
Grieg piano concerto op. 16
Long deep fjord endlessly cutting into the country,
calm is water, there are small green shelves where
small farms claim their right to exist. At the end of
the fjord, where the landscape is gentle, a village.
Here generations worked and lived people of the soil
and sea. A piece of a mountainside fell into the fjord
and created a tsunami, village engulfed only a few
survived, it took days before the world knew by then
the water was calm and reflected the mountain and
had no story to tell. The survivors didn’t flee their land
but rebuilt it. They live enclosed by beauty yet know
that paradise is not permanent but steadfastly tends
their farms goats and cattle and stillness and beauty.
Grieg´s piano concerto plays if unknown in their ears,
the light, the dark, sudden disaster that makes up
the souls of the people who live here.
Categories:
grieg, dedication, people, people,
Form: Blank verse
My cat went a roaming to find a new home.
Sing kitty,sing katty,sing Oh!
This cat was so clever he had his own comb.
Look up,now look down,stone the crows!
He went into the neighbours' and drank all their milk.
Sing,fridge raiding kitties.No,No!
Then he laid himself down on a piece of fine silk.
Sing,what the dickens,my lovely pillow!
He went to the butcher and ate all the steak.
Sing greedy,he's ruined my flow.
Then he went to the hairdresser for a shampoo.
Where else can a puttitat go?
He had no plastic,no money,no cheque!
Sing,cheater,sing creature,sing woe.
She sent for a Copper who paid the cat's bill.
And so my puss came out all aglow.
Now my cat was glossy and plump and refreshed.
Sing:fancy,it all goes to show.
So he came home and said this place is best.
And he picked up his cello and bow.
He scraped some Sibelius and also some Grieg.
Sing: Northern lights can always glow.
But,he looked so self satisfied,I felt annoyed....
One should not let one's narcissism show.
But he was so handsome,I was glad he came home.
Sing,grateful,sing katefull,sing Ho!
And I hope he will never again want to roam.
Sing glory.sing story;Sing So!
Categories:
grieg, animals, caregiving, funny, happiness,
Form: Ballad
Before extravagant, painted musicians
with fantastical hats and synthesizers
crooning 80's melodies and harmonies,
there was us.
A small band of two conjoined families
with an insatiable hunger for culture
We picked a nation out of a hat
Germany, Russia, Hawaii, Spain
and prepared their food
wore their clothes
sang their songs
told their stories
We planned and planned and planned
to events worthy of being called "eventful"
Then we picked composers:
Beethoven, Bartok, Chopin, Grieg
and played their music
told their lives
wrote their poems
cried their tears
We lost ourselves in history and the present tense
Memories to bless the skin and swallow the mind - whole.
There isn't a child born, who wouldn't expand their existence
with such an upbringing.
So we said:
"Kill the TV!"
"Run 'till panting"
"Never judge"
"Yearn to learn"
We dreamed away the evenings
spent in other lands, as other people
with the true realization that culture
can be found in your own living room...
if you look hard enough.
Categories:
grieg, art, imagination, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Magenta thatched magic
Lantern ravine
sugar plum shadows
haunting the stream
perplexing the galaxy
a siege of illusions
a serpentine rhapsody
leads to conclusions
Follow the lodestar
Hesperus rising
delirious love
is always surprising
weave me a diadem
wild orchids weeping
Norwegian whiskey
and Grieg
while I'm sleeping
Deep in our bower
a bold mandolin
bids us forget
all we are or have been
we rise on the vapors
melodic surrender
to the rhythm of love
and our night
to remember.
Categories:
grieg, adventure, music, passion,
Form: Couplet