Remembering the blues before they died
Having been green and purple for a while
Athena smiled in my mind with soft pride
Pleasing a thought of a nymph with some guile
Sounds abound in the silence of the trees
Oscillating towards a recent past
Dionysiaca* in blue with cheese
Yesterday will forever remain passed
In and out of my chest she dances bare
Nothing on except the not-for-me words
Before Greece she displays the finest hair
Letting the music play without the thirds
Undeserving of her love or respect
Every blue is fading up to deflect
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* Ancient Greek epic poem and principal Nonnus piece (5th century CE).
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Dedicated to no one alive. There is no point, then.
“What about the Cosmos?”
It is too freaking vast for a dedication and I hate Mars.
“The Sun? The Moon?”
To the stars who died long ago too.
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George Gershwin - “Rhapsody in Blue” by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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By Patrick M. Ohanaabout a year ago in Poets
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Somehow the music feels red and loud, not blue. But I love the words Rhapsody in blue/ lovely.
This was sooo beautiful! Loved your Acrostic+