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Variations on a Theme: A Suite of Poems

written by Guest Contributor October 30, 2015

Dreamers travel back roads

Music streaming from the car

A vehicle with personality

Rather than looks

Dreamers are spontaneous and colorful

A collage of all their experiences

Like a girl scouts merit badges

Collaged in a swath across your chest

Dreamers have tattoos

Stories branded into their skin

Thoughtful as they unravel the story for you

Like red carpet across your mind

Picking up speed as it goes

And abruptly ending

Dream with me

 

IMG_0855Busking

1-21-14

You are a work of art:

Guitar case open

Standing on the cobblestones

Framed by wrought iron and stone

Your voice carries down the road

Enchanting the passerby

Earning smiles and coins –

Guitar of lacquered obsidian

Edged in gold

Sings in your hands

A bright duet –

Your hair shines softly

Hazelnut, brown as comfort

The black and white lines

Of your elegant suit

Are crisp as the cold air –

The bright blue of your eyes

Squinting in the sorrow of song

You finish, leaving the air thrumming

The sporadic applause like fireflies

Twinkling on and off around you

The slow waterfall of gold and silver

Fit for a dragons hoard

A gift to the flawless artist

Who starts right up again

For the joy of the song

For the hearts he will touch

 

IMG_2373Love’s Music

9-21-12

You played me

Blue strings extending straight to my veins

Fluting notes scattered like freckles

Butterflies murmur in stomach drums

A symphony of tingles when we kiss

I sway to your heartbeats rhythm

Deft notes whisper a sweet duet

Your voice, a coffee colored cellos song

Lute strings brushed like eyelashes softly closing

Fingers running over skin like piano keys

Hum of contentment rising out of a golden brass chest

The music of loving you

 

IMG_2956Magic

2-28-13

Last of day

Reverse of dawn

Lights upon

That face

Beard – a fire in the light

Your shadow jumps with you

Off the stool

Like a throne

Guitar – black and sleek

Fingers stumbling

On half-remembered past

Singing hesitantly

Strong and soft

Painfully precious

Notes you’ve touched

Into being

Silver and gold

Hum to your bidding

Perched in the glow

Blue pouring into a pool

Of exaggerated sincerity

Gathering our grins

The song pulls you in again

Eyes wandering

Lips whispering

Till you pick it up again

Cavort through the room

If only you could see

Your music is magic to me

 

IMG_6107Making music

9-9-12

I love it all

Spellbound, I am lost in the details

Your foot keeping time

Head turned to catch the tune

The space between lips and harmonica

The dance of fingers on strings

How quickly your hands fall into new patterns

Blue eyes hungry to mirror his notes

Laps and arms full of music

Maybe it is a guitar thing to slouch

Cradling your lady into your chest

A circle of orange and brown folding chairs in your garage

The center where the notes collide

Beautiful and shimmering as a mirage

Overwhelmed, I sit on the side

But you see every drop in the river as they fly by


Music can hold enormous power in memories and experiences, transporting us instantly to an age, location, or person. What sonic joys, mysteries, disbelief, and clarity have you experienced? Identify songs of influence in your life and explore them like variations on a theme, melding syntax and song structure, recalling the seriousness or levity that accompanies. Whether it’s an account of when a specific song first entered your life, the process of learning to play a song, teaching someone a song, experiencing the same song in different places as it weaves through your life, unbelievable radio timing, sharing songs with those in need, tracking the passing down of songs, creative song analysis etc, I am interested in those ineffable moments and welcoming submissions of your own variations on a theme, as drawn from your life’s soundtrack. Please email submissions to meganentropy@gmail.com and keep an eye out for others’ Variations.

**(“song” is a broad phrase: could be a pop song, a traditional tune, a symphony, commercial jingles, a hummed lullaby, 2nd grade recorder class horror stories, etc)**


Screen Shot 2015-10-24 at 1.01.43 PMSasha Kasoff’s poetry can be found in two self-published books and many anthologies, magazines, and other literary presses. She is currently earning her MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University in England. Look for her author pages on Goodreads and Facebook.

 

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