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Open Poetry #16

Passing Tone

Accordionmaid
Member

since 2001-10-28

Posts 153
MA/USA

0 posted 2001-11-04 10:39 PM

Tonight as I held the guitar
and softly sang "LA,"
in a subtle and sudden flash of
sight it came to me that it
was the same one, the same "LA" I'd
sung twenty years ago
with you
The one when the night's soft lights
played around on the floor of the
barn and this made you play
the piano
I twirled around once or twice with
the microphone and lightly kicked the
air and the woodstove crackled
and murmured
and went
to sleep

At times, alone
(like a passing tone goes)
I turn through a sky of elliptical paths
Eclipsed for infinitesimal eons,
Held secret like centuries
hid behind walls,
Until a woodstove
crackles in a barn
and a guitar plays "la..."

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2001-11-04 11:45 PM

It's amazing how those memories can sneak up on you. I liked the barn/woodstove imagery.
A unique memory, one to savor each time you sing LA, or sit in front of a woodstove..

SmittenKitten
Senior Member

since 2001-06-20

Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet

2 posted 2001-11-05 01:01 AM

Accordionmaid~ I like the images you've called up for us and the nostalgic atmosphere. You've put me in a thoughtful mood

This is great writing...I've noticed your name around but I don't think I've actually welcomed you to Passions yet so let this be your welcome! I will look for more of your work as I did enjoy this piece

Hugs,
~Krista