Stravinsky Poems - Poems about Stravinsky

From the Clarinet

...Late November,
and lonely resonance of harmattan
salutes this solitude.
A weaverbird's contralto, in one
gale-sweep, lays bare the lower balustrade
of a maisonette,
and the romance of the last ...

Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...

Rapture

...
“My music is best understood
by children and animals.”
                    _Igor Stravinsky

So rapturous is music with its sounds
that stir emotions deep within the heart;
to ent...

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...

Stravinsky

..."stravinsky"


the chord
D E A D

played on
a piano

sounds
like

life...

Clerihew Stravinsky

...Composer Igor  Stravinsky 
an overnight sensation came to be
He got the ballet audience ro sing 
his praise with Rite of Spring...

Skinwalker

...
"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cer...

Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part One

...Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine tal...

Stravinsky - the Rite of Spring

...Taken inside the bowels
of bassoons, 
tropical heat from
swelling bows.
		Sweat labors the brow,
		full with carnal dissonance.
The throat is lunged
by a beast
veiled in foliage.
		Spewed in...

Scheherazade - a Sonnet

...Oh, I dreamed so of marriage when I was a boy,
Of a girl I could cherish, might love my whole life!
In the 'first' grade, a girl (my first love) called me "Roy," (1)
Of course, I called her "Dale,...

Cart Blanche Aldi Time - Part Iii

...glancing at thee beautiful doll female human, 
   an aggregate of positivity arose. That four 
tut hood toward slender youthful looking chica 
   figuratively took my breath away. She galore
re: ...

A Paradox Vignette

...His music was to cause a riot
As Stravinsky lost the plot,
Beethoven ...it was not-
This rite of Spring
Soon made the critics sing....

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...

Tanglewood As Therapy

...TANGLEWOOD AS THERAPY

Tanglewood untangled me, took my breath away
each moment of Sibelius, Mahler, Rachmaninoff 
sweet violins, trumpets, kettle drums, cellos, fire
mixed with wind, echoing wi...

Unforgettable Places - Acts

...I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me what’s mor...

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