Wedding unDress bawdy
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This summer two nudists got wed:
no clothing was worn, not a thread,
no Mendelssohn played -
(I smirked, I'm afraid)
'The organ is out,' Vicar'd said......
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Categories:
mendelssohn, wedding,
Form: Limerick
How the echo filters reality -POTW
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charcoal grey horizon~
on the rusty cast iron bench
my old self sits in pensive mood
beside the lake beneath December sky
the wayward wind as it teases my hair
whispers melodies from long ag...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, feelings, memory,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
mendelssohn, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Consolation Felix Mendelssohn
...Here is the season of love and understanding
here lays my heart devoted to the cause
I know that time is only of the essence
God promised love that only He provides;
What can I do... to reach ...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, appreciation, music,
Form: Lyric
Clerihew Mendelsohn
...Family Barholdy Mendelssohn
Felix the composer is best known
Creatively gifted from his teens
like or hate him there's no in-between...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Roll Call
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"Roll Call"
Where are your
soft waves to drown in
when I think of you
are they withheld
and our names
suspended
marked on some
ba...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, romance,
Form: Romanticism
When the Channels Are Open
...Distant strains of piano music
dance into my ears;
colors of vibrancy waiting
to take away my sorrows.
Somewhere black and white keys,
are laughing to the tickle
of nimble fingers;...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, appreciation, music, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Me Little Mother
...She turns me around
Forty years ago
At High School graduation
And she says…
Something I can’t remember
It was probably something like,
‘Well, lookit that!’ or
‘Boy, Howdy!’ or
Some such enc...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, appreciation, faith, humor, mother,
Form: Free verse
Happy In Sonnyland
...Sonny sat on the floor
in a low lit corner of the bedroom
he hugged his trumpet
as a young man they had had great times
he reminisced of his love for his horn
He was unable to play it wel...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, love, music, wife,
Form: Free verse
No Title
...Each day I am born into a symphony. Tones and chords eloquently choreographed in minor keys of insurgent melancholia. Lumbering contrition escorted by virulent humiliation where no penance can seem t...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
Heinrich Heine Revisited
...I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your literary accomplishments well-known,
And your ...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
The Marrying Kind
...The trees are engaged this year,
fig to myrtle, myrtle to pine, pine
to palm, feeling each other up
in seasonal delirium. Each speaks
a different dialect, yet borders
are open, no passport is n...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, fantasy
Form: Free verse
The Neapolitan Tarantella
...The Neapolitan tarantella
is a folk dance very graceful and lively,
it was inspired by someone having been
bitten by a poisonous Taruntula.
It's fast up-beat tempo
induces a frenzied dance ...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, happiness, history, music, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Mendelssohn
...He
Said
Words could
Not express
Scottish Hebrides
Outer banks, only music could
Mendelssohns' Violin Concerto in A Minor
Expresses the beauty, wind, barreness, the sand, waves, the castles, ...
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Categories:
mendelssohn, music, nature, places
Form: Fibonacci