That's a fine pantoum, Fliss.
Discovery Concert
HSO, January 16, 2007, 10:30 a.m. at Bethel AME, Bloomfield, CT.
Bright colors, green and blue and red, like stars
in space fly to their eyes from the stained glass
***while the children listen to
the symphony as sweet as candy bars
and bitter as oppression. Woodwinds, brass,
***percussion, strings speak through
the atmosphere of this small church today
commemorating Martin Luther King,
***whose message still rings true
despite the fact mankind has a long way
to go before that dream’s what all folks sing.
***Like an island that’s in view
a good ways off (we all sit in the ship
that’s heading there), that vision features trees
***with fruits of every brand.
The journey will be quite a lengthy trip,
but not as hard as scaling hills on skis
***or tough as trying to land
on some distant planet circling Betelgeuse.
The children — skinny, fat, black, brown, and white —
***hear wild harmonious sounds
and know inside that, like these tones that fuse
and blend within their minds to cause delight,
***their dreams shall have no bounds.
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