Long Liszt Poems

I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock and sparrow down by the shake and shiver, I sell...

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In a peculiar puny town nestled in western Massachusetts,
There lives an enchanted mansion in the Wilbraham woods,
Hidden in the hills away from the eastern city's pollutants,
Where the creme de la creme masquerades in cowled hoods.

Around...

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Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days when I saw things
In stark black or white,
And me and...

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Non descript hedge rows sculpted into ornamental animal 
via botanical artist wielding pruning shears and chain saw 
carved, limned and sculpted with wrist wrought voila uber
prestidigitatiously head turning botanical picturesque Sun
kist animals at an exhibition...

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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....

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TEMPUS FUGIT

I seemed to be going through a change,
Maybe the male menopause.
Or perhaps a mid-life crisis,
But I had fun whatever the cause.

I purchased a Harley Davidson
To roar about the place
And I rescued my flares from...

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Fingers aching to melt the keys
Piano lying under the weight of my soul
Composition scratched, enigmatic release
A pillow to cushion the world and it's blows
Mozart alive in the pulse in my wrist
Chopin in nocturnes sings me...

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Fluttering fingertips 
on ebony and ivory
gently ascending 
like the wings of 
a white butterfly~
then gradually descending~
fading like a sleepy sun.

Tender instrumental pauses ~
transposing into heart beats
like the silence between I
and LOVE~ and YOU
when you utter...

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It's all about a girl who wished the sea
and pinned her heart to the moon
induced by the opening lyrics
of classical music without any words
While the river runs straight to the blood stream
and emotion elaborates ear...

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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...

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Have you heard the cello play?
It's Liebestraum, by Liszt, his way.
While in this tender melody...
it sets me free from time.

Fond memories of childhood past,
may be the ones that may not last.
But memories are precious, still,
the...

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I’M COMPOSING MYSELF FOR CHRISTMAS

I’ve done all my Christmas CHOPIN
And got everything on my LISZT.
All in all I’ve been frightfully BIZET
And the Christmas break will be BLISS.

I’m away to the VILLA-LOBOS,
In HAYDN until New Year’s...

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Lain carved into the mountainside,
Spiralling its way, through the mist,
A path no more than a meter wide,
Like the fading notes of Liszt.
An eagle circles, her chicks cried;
If I should fall, no one to assist.
Fleet foot,
Cloaked...

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The soft cool air of morning mist .
The warm smooth feel of just been kissed .
The gentle tones of Brahms and Liszt 
            ...

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Folks more sophisticated than me might say I ain't got no couth, I suppose,

But I ain't a fan of Bach, Liszt and Mozart nor the music they compose!

Spare me the screechin' violins, growlin' cellos and...

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There’s silence in my room
I feel the pain all over
my body; helpless as I am.

No appetite to do something
nor eat my meals
my body complains – aches.

Music, the ubiquitous B minor Sonata
of Liszt, beautiful to listen...

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