Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Prophecy


You sent this song to me –
no words,
just ellipses…

Two rests between the chords
to breath
spontaneously

I hum upbeat motive
in heart
with caution

How thoughtful your advice
to use
percussion

Laptop’s keyboard – in smoke
from open
‘Offices’

Add music, words to rhythm -
affirm
self prophecy…


Image credit: layoutsparks.com

for Poetry Jam 'The Sound of Silence'

17 comments:

  1. i hum an upbeat motive in heart with caution....probably a good way to approach life...not put the fire out on your keyboard before it catches...ha

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  2. Having a little hum, and beating to ones own drum, way to be, as one steps back to see

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  3. Love the silence of two rests between chords!! ---- the ultimate of silences..

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  4. Resting between the chords .. I love that line. Very nice!!

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  5. I love "affirm self-prophecy". How wonderful!

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  6. Lovely... I can just hear laptop's keyboard.

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  7. That first stanza really made me smile--the whole poem was very fun and well done:-)

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  8. I like this very much. I especially like the 2nd verse

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  9. Guess you just have to write your own song in life instead of waiting around for elipses and rests:)

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  10. the laptop's keyboard as a sort of percussion as a background for writing poetry...nice..i like

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  11. Music is interesting...especially studying chords and 'eclipses' between notes are so intriguing. I just loved the first part of this poem so much! :)

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  12. I read this as a description of the writing process. And I loved it!

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  13. well done indeed....thanks for sharing

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  14. "I hum upbeat motive in heart with caution" --- ah, how delicate... loved the entire flow of your piece... smiles...

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  15. I never thought of the rest as being silence. But that is exactly what they are. Very nice!

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  16. Notes and words add to the silence of the soul, very interesting and a great take on the theme.

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  17. a song with no words... just music. Nice.

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