Friday, August 04, 2006

Moonlight Sonata ... for Poetry Thursday

Lilies, Joan Z. Rough © 2006

This weeks prompt was to write about a song. I don't think that the Moonlight Sonata would qualify as a "song," but none-the-less it is music. Enjoy!


Moonlight Sonata

The moon holds its breath
as it climbs crusty limbs
fireflies inform the dark
pinpricks of light
under a bell-jar-sky

Cicadas overwhelm
Beethoven escaping
through open windows
notes falter
begin to rise once more

Agreement flirts with chaos
self-destructing stars plunge
their tails sparking dreams
veiled in cobwebs
nameless faces revisit
moonstruck nights
touching the piano’s heart
lunar reflections
embroidered with sound

The moon blinks
surrenders the dark
scent of morning
drifts from waking lilies

jzr

6 comments:

  1. I like the moonlight color of the flower and love the poem. I know I really like it when I think...Wow, I wish I had written that.
    Cyn

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  2. LOTS of wonderful images here...very nicely done.

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  3. under a bell jar sky

    all these images...fantastic.
    thank you for sharing this...
    (and i wrote about a tango...not exactly a song either but..music all the same)

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  4. this one is luscious!

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  5. Your imagery was exceptional! Brava!

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  6. "Lunar reflections embroidered with sound" - love it! I think I'll copy this out and tuck in my Beethoven Piano Sonata's book for inspiration when I play the "Moonlight."

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