Short Schubert Poems

Gabriel Urbain Faure
with intimate pieces to play
Heir to Schubert & Chopin they of of him
especially moved by his Requiem...

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Antonio Salieri of Legano
teacher of the famous you may know
Beethoven Schubert &Liszt by name
but Amadeus the film brought more acclaim...

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Franz Petrer Schubert of Vienna
had little success with genre opera
Theatre&orchestra was more up his street
with his songs few can compete...

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Who give me cold comfort
when the Moon rides the pale
I see the mice pass the silho
and then I praise  Schubert
who has the courage to change his tune

There's a man on a bicycle
he has no choice
but to ride the upturned mile
in search of his brother...

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SYMPHONY

Searching the audience
Young and old in rapt attention
Maestro, Bernstein, has come on stage
Players have done their final warm up
House lights are dimmed
Only the foots and high spots remain
No one stirs, all are reverently expectant
You know this work – it’s Schubert – relax


Dave Austin...

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(based on Franz Schubert)

wordless at this moment
virginal in a closed room
dark as a berry

Gretchen maid of wood
webbed as an old barn
eyes drops of glass

that seek a window
empty of steps, cast
ing a look at

all that brings no favour
or slowly turns the wheel that
darkly bares the thread;

the cloth of love forsaken;
heartpace of an empty view;
a sort of end, cut....

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Our capacity appears to be
a maximum of nine symphonies
Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler; Dvorák too
bravely tried to go beyond the ninth
before early, they all passed away.
The list; longer than those mentioned here;
composers; who never wrote to ten.
Was nine the limit of their vision?
Or, can we not comprehend a tenth?



A Time for Nine Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner 
Date wrote: 12-05-2021
https://www.howmanysyllables.com/...

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