This blessing comes from composer Gustav Mahler
Who has a wonderful definition…
of something important to all of us…
That would be our family traditions….
It is a definition meant to encourage and inspire:
Tradition is not the worship of the ashes…
but the preservation of the fire.
Gustave Mahler travelled far & wide
his emotive adagietto* he could not hide
melancholic
memories
emote
tears
&
forgotten
years
awake
regrets
surface
remembered
again
in
words
recalled
emotions
crescend
descend
then die
a
tide of life
ebbs
no more
to flow
Gustav Mahler of Bohemia
broke the conventions of his era
Conductor /composer a genius indeed
even changed idenomination to succeed
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.
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.
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 take another photograph,
of orchestrated madness,
the forward stepping march
of eagle minded Nazi troops,
baraging into the brain
with every screaming note,
and moaning key,
to provide meaning,
to what it feels like
to fight a war you want,
but do not need,
and to kill a man,
to feul a dream.
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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