Long Satie Poems

*AUDIO of Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie YouTube.
LYRICS by numbers.

Gymnopedie No 1

so this,  0:01
is how,
it feels,
to be,  0:09

at rope's end,  0:11
where I thought,
I had first formed.  0:18
.
start at,  0:20
the end,
where...

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Paintings
         - Impression: Sunrise by Claude Monet (1840-1926)
         - Deer in Stream by Philip Goodwin (1881-1935)

 
Red sun climbs...

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Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic  flavour written in its earlier as a one line form
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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden

A...

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alone
     for a moment
measuring sound
frozen
       pieces
in a particular
               way

I wonder
 ...

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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden

A tribute to Erik Satie
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the school-bus departs - she eats the advent candy
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on garibaldi's retreat - the cookie crumbles
*
moss...

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Hiding again from the dazzling sun
Why am I here, I’ve no clue
There’s no necessity to walk around
No urgent business to do
Sounds like I’m killing the time, but I’m not
It is exactly the opposite 
Time is...

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Vivaldi in every season https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/vivaldi_presto_1146945

Satie minimalist music https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/contrarian_chords_another_satie_tribute_1169333

Cage piano  happenings https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_poem_1_ear_candy_988004

Brubeck-& all that jazz  https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_no_4_ear_candy_998687

Haley rock 'n roll https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/footle-around_the_clock_141264

Elvis Always on my mind https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/it_seems_like_yesterday_120657

Mahler the majestic https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_no_8_ear_candy_1002335

Christian hymnody https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/an_easter_hymnody_215744

Requiems many&varied https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/requiem_468371

Worship music https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvLxZEU02uI...

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The music
                  played
a satie
          piano piece
in each 
 ...

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Satie tribute. 

The music
                  plays
sounds
  then silence
in
a pregnant pause

in each
              space
I
    day dream
                          I
                          am
a child again
              on a swing

push
          pause
                as I swing
push
        pause
                as I swing
back
            and
                    forth
push
            then
                      pause
in
a
        reverie
                      of
                      thoughts
higher
          higher
                    back
                    and
                    forth
push
          and pause
the
        music
                  plays
on

I stay
        in
              yesterday...

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The music
                  played
a satie
          piano piece
in each 
 ...

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bizarre beauty
subtle&
          slow
evoking
     the visual
       in intervals
         ...

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We'll have to choose, dear,
 we shall choose not between the colors of the sky or 
the earth,
religion and God,

We must pick it up, dear; we must
pick
not the stars of the night, nor the flowers...

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ensnared
     abandoned
        to the tempest
eternity fades
disarmed
            by imagination

in the depth
              of solitude
empty regrets
disappear
tranquility
         is expressed
                 in sighs

in my mind
     dreaming
         in this quiet
notes
stream
      in continuous
             contentment

stay awhile
                  listen
thoughts on hold
await the pause
                    suspended

emotions
          of
              calm
                reverie
repeat
revolve
          in circles
intervals
repeat
&
repeat
        then
               appear

               appear...

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the onion in father's hands didn't have time to cry,
with his fist punched it on the corner of the table, spread salt and 
ate it with sheep's cheese,
(like the builders of the pyramids, my dad...

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(Lyric to Gymnopedie No 1 by Erik Satie) 

I open the album I'd long forgotten 
and the old photos draw me slowly in 
I feel my childhood self intensely 
so innocent, so hopeful, in youthful...

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My mind’s eye preoccupation,
I am captive to my guiding light,
the source of all my equivocal  influences.

Erik Satie under the moon,
Shadowy contours
against a nocturnal silver sky,  
my subliminal ambient impressionism.

I am walking a shrouded...

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