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You, dear Beethoven, are a cruel tease

May 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM

You, dear Beethoven

are a cruel tease.

Your music seduces and entices me

I can’t resist it.

I lift my bow

with pure anticipation

to taste -

the simple pleasures you offer

Yet you,

Are not so easily captured.

With impish delight

You soar just out of my reach

You will not be appeased

by technical prowess,

or the lofty

promotion of Self

You strip away my confidence.

By design, you shatter

all musical ideals

I know to be right

And so I learn

To humble my pride.

To reach,

for the impossible

to finally comprehend

that your music was never intended

for the destination

but for the journey

From Anne-Marie Proulx
Posted on May 27, 2009 at 7:28 PM

lol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

Anne-Marie

You have poet skills!

From Christopher Liao
Posted on May 27, 2009 at 10:50 PM

nice!!

From Ray Randall
Posted on May 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM

Parts of that fine poem sound like my wife. LOL. Just kidding. Really. Well, sort of.

From Sander Marcus
Posted on May 29, 2009 at 1:40 AM

Oh, good Lord!! How can I possibly resist responding to this one?

I'm so discouraged,
I'll have a scotch and soda,
Cause no one has the time
For a Beethoven coda.

I try to play Beethoven's anything,
But it always fails.
How do you make music
Out of arpeggios and scales?

Sure, he was a genius.
His 5th Symphony? How'd he think it?
But play it the right way?
I'd rather drink it.

Yet if truth be told
(And I'm not being coy)
It's Beethoven's music
That I owed to joy.

:) Sandy

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