Greetings all,
Here's another poemusical combination. First, the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6cPairOTA
And then, the poem:
The Shirt That Won’t Come Off
Out of Mendelssohn’s Violin
Concerto in E Minor – out
of art made great by passion –
come the wheeling seasons
on our blue planet.
This is the shirt that won’t come off,
the bow and string
that burn my heart to cinders.
I am standing
at the composer’s shoulder
as he marks up his page.
Time passes – time
laid out like architecture,
amid the fuss and bustle
of profane existence.
Cheers,
John