Long Accompanist Poems

Love's Duet
by Rick Rucker

Does your heart, to you, sound like a spinet?
Ever louder, by the minute?

My diagnosis, sad to say,
Someone has stolen your heart away!

What's that you say,
Inside your chest it still does stay?

How can...

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FULL HOUSE

“Full house,”   she said     “Every seat’s taken
There’s an excitement out there!” she said
All he saw was the empty stage
         ...

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Emotional tension fills the air...
 Lights and laughter everywhere

 A fiesta audience waits eagerly for a night of passion.

 The dance of Spain and a sensual dancer
 The Andalusian Gypsy dancer
 El baile flamenco tonight…Ole!

...

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The years went by approaching an end
Time had lost its savor still in search of a meaning
Distance faded away closely producing vivid streaks
Marking the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end
Hope tried...

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After a long walk
I transcribed myself into piano music.
All night a harpsichord
had been jangling nerves,
rattling the same baroque concerto
over and over again.

I count I-100, then start over
counting and walking,
a clockwork organ
self-winding, always
pushing a moment before...

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My choir director
                    is a painter
    a music stand her easel
  ...

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You ...

are the breath of heaven,
          an exhalation of the divine ire ...
             ...

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