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Bach – a meditation and work in progress

March 9, 2008 By AmberPaw

[I am already up to draft 5, and figure there will be dozens more – but thanks for sharing and for the inspiration that came from your post, Charlie.  I don’t know how to correct my original post, so will continue to update this diary as I revise and correct the poem – thanks for sharing.  Deb]

Bach

Harmonies

Candlelight

Many voices

Painting with Sound

Creating with Harmonies.

String and wind and voice

Woven into music

Harmonic Fires with Ruby Hearts

and silver traceries in the mind.

Pounded keys

wind-created jewels

spinning like flames within the soul,

flowing, like the water of life.

Your long-darkened eyes beneath their tufted brows,

still watch, still listen, still an Elder Shepard,

Watching over all who perform your music

from some other realm.

Silently,your distant, unseen lips move, the eyes

gleam

like silver and flame in the darkness of the mystery of time

your baton, invisible but still palpable, blesses.

Music was born in your hands and mind and soul

in those soul- fires

were shaped

harmonies, that continue to come forth

now, new and old.

Water and Wood

Wind and Fire

Shaper of Music and the Soul.

Deborah Sirotkin Butler

March, 2008

Revision 5

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