Prelude & Fugue No.3 in C Sharp

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bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

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0 posted 2011-12-30 10:19 PM

I refuse to be forgiven.

I write you the math of my thousand longings,
the fertile kindling impermanence of unfamiliar names,

brush of your hands, a phrase,
this world's hollow logic, our eternity of need...

I say soul spills out as sand spills,
who cannot follow the flight of birds spread like breath
cannot mimic, in the sweet winter morning light, star-fall.

Imagine sequential light
isolated, trapped...deaf to those insistencies
whose bones once broken, reach heavenward
for some harder truth, a voice
against which to measure this world's every wound.

Is love mispoken?

the question you keep asking
resists my poor dust-crusted calculus,
its rules structured with rushed singularities,
pendant flowers, jade beads, wrens,
the storm reeling over my life.

Were no windows open on eternity,
the difference in pressure would shatter the closed ones.

Only passions, not ideas produce effects at this distance.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-12-30 10:24 PM

"Only passions, not ideas produce effects at this distance."

This touched me immensely, it is a private thing, but it gave me the shivers.

I just pulled the cork on some good zinfandel, I usually drink cheap California burgundy. This was a Christmas present, 15% as opposed to my regular 12%. Gotta love it.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

bel1e
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2 posted 2011-12-30 10:27 PM

well then..thank you for allowing my words to touch you, Mr. Pat~~

Cheers!

~*~nursing a little grey goose and pineapple juice myself tonight~*~ wine gives me a headache in the am

but the grey goose does the trick nicely~*~

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2011-12-30 10:28 PM

Let's hear it for the Grey Goose.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

bel1e
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4 posted 2011-12-30 10:29 PM

~amen~

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2011-12-30 10:32 PM

"Only passions, not ideas produce effects at this distance."

This could have been enough said, but you used the fanfare to conclude the riff.
(Maybe using C7, Em, Am, Bm or B7...)

I enjoyed the song.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

bel1e
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6 posted 2011-12-30 10:35 PM

LOL~*~

glad you enjoyed it, JL...sadly, I don't know enough about writing music...I only know how to bleed...LOL

Your enthusiasm for my lunacy is very encouraging BTW! Thank You!

ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

7 posted 2011-12-31 05:51 AM

JL, quoted my favorite line in the poem...what I would call the pivital line.

And the riff mentioned is awesome...fits so well with the poem, posed as a song..

I think B7, instead of Bm, jl
gives it that little grind /buzz, to go well with the C7 and the emotion of the minor chords.

Both definitions of "fugue" apply to this poem...

Love your poetry, Bel1e/Baby Girl

Nicole
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since 1999-06-23

Posts 1835
Florida

8 posted 2011-12-31 08:26 AM

I've had a habit of looking to certain poets for inspiration, over the years. You're definitely one of them - too good for words.

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

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West Coast

9 posted 2011-12-31 08:29 AM

Baby Bel1e...I didn't know we could say fugue here in open...but I bet it looks pretty slipping off your lips...enjoyed you little one...

bel1e
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10 posted 2011-12-31 12:29 PM

ice! you are so awesome and your comments inspire me!

((I dig your stuff too))~ Thank you!

bel1e
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11 posted 2011-12-31 12:29 PM

Nicole~

the feeling is mutual, dear poet~

(((thank you)))~

bel1e
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12 posted 2011-12-31 12:31 PM

daddy~*~

LOL...forgive me...I may need my mouth washed out with soap from time to time...

~Thanks for the eyes again, dark one~*~*

XOXO

JamesMichael
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13 posted 2012-01-02 10:11 PM

A pleasure to read...James

bel1e
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14 posted 2012-01-02 10:24 PM

Thanks so much, James!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

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15 posted 2012-01-03 02:47 PM

Remarkable read.

quote:
I refuse to be forgiven.
I write you the math of my thousand longings,
the fertile kindling impermanence of unfamiliar names,

Forgiveness is highly overrated, especially in this kind of light, isn't it?

Michael

bel1e
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16 posted 2012-01-03 02:57 PM

ha ha Michael...can't say when it no longer became all that important...but I'm glad you see things similarly!

Thanks for checking this one out!
XOXO

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