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Mahler Poems - Poems about Mahler


Premium Member BM V classical mahler
Gustave Mahler travelled far & wide ...

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Categories: mahler, music,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member M Is For Mahler Adagio
melancholic memories emote tears & forgotten years awake regrets surface remembered again in words ...

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Categories: mahler, music,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Clerihew Mahler
Gustav Mahler of Bohemia broke the conventions of his era Conductor /composer a genius indeed even changed idenomination to succeed...

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Categories: mahler, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Das Lied Fur Alma - With Apologies To Gustav Mahler
Dark music floods my chamber Like a slowly rising tide That laps against the silence Where my fondest dreams reside. Dark music bathes the morning With its languid, liquid tune, Conundrum-like concerto, Every note a cryptic rune. Dark music wakes me gently From the warm embrace of sleep And sings to me of treasures I can have, but never keep....

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Categories: mahler, music, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Mahler No 9
Mahler No.9, not so inclined, to be so entwined. That final note, of letting go. Then silent measures, with silent voices, the instruments of fate, and quiet choices....

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Categories: mahler, hope, introspection, life, music,
Form: Blank verse



Mahler- Quartet For Strings In a Minor
I see a German wilderness, littered with soldiers and the broken bones of a nation at the grips of war, and there are flowers everywhere... in the soil, in the faces and mouths of dead children, and lifeless bodies flung over the earth in a quilt of death, and of course I don't understand, and could never feel being there, but the knowledge is enough, to...

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Categories: mahler, music, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vignette-The Other Mahler
She was the passion of his life Alma,fated never to be his wife, In a relationship of tempest & strife- As figures drifting upon a sea, Sadly the closest,to eternal love for he. Tribute to Oskar Kokoschka-see the 'The Tempest'...

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Categories: mahler, art, love, people,
Form: Ekphrasis

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